Trick or treat

trevskoda said:
Chocolate laxative melted down and made into ghost moulds on a stick for the kids, keep them off the streets for a few days.
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oooohhhhh trev...thats not nice........you should have some goodies for the bairns.........anyway doubt we will get any tonight as the weather is far too wild......just as well...cos i dont have anything in for them............
 
Last year I decorated our garden (300 metres long) with bats made from black plastic hanging from trees, as were white ghosts (sheets), pumpkins (Sainsbury's orange carrier bags with black face-markings), gravestones (kitchen worktop off-cuts with "quotes") and even an alien (green football inside a whitish bag, as a face peaking out from my bike cape). Spooky sounds were provided from battery-powered speakers placed strategically. Because of covid I had timed activities for each of my 3 set of grandkids to ensure they adhered to guidelines regarding mixing.

This year I've only decorated the patio but the weather isn't very kind so they can experience it in a couple of minutes. They are all invited for approx 5pm and we will provide hotdogs, crumpets and sweets. Then they have all paid to do a local pumpkin trail.

I'm hoping that I don't get inundated with the local youth, so most of it is out of sight from the roadway.

Gordon
 
What a strange lot, sounds like an edition of the Beano….. We have proper sweets, witches fingers ( cheese pastry sticks with almond fingernails made by Mrs S) and ghost cupcakes ( again Mrs S ) ready for the local kids tonight ( if any turn up.) sunny and calm here, hopefully it will be nice this evening.
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We had our local kids round last night. Only two, Calum and Rowan. No sweets but wee toys, hat and glove set for Rowan and a torch for Calum. We had 4 pumpkins on the way up the drive and balloons with glow sticks in them inside white bin liners hanging from the trees as ghosts. Kids enjoyed it and parents thought it was great.
 
Fortunately in our small village we don't get any begging so the sweets we always get in '"just in case" somehow mysteriously disappear as the night wears on
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I have it in mind to answer the door with my air rifle in hand though. See if you want to trick me then!
 
My grandkids all turned up early (some at lunchtime!) as they all wanted bed following their body-clocks getting them up at 6am and school the next day. So they all disappeared to the charity trail in the adjacent village before it got dark, so I was disappointed as I'd spent 72h recharging all the batteries! We hoped that they might return to enjoy my display but at 7.55pm I decided to shut it all down.

As I disconnected the first item there were voices in the yard and it was a family from near our village green. Mum, Dad and the two kids were allocated tasks (count the bats/candles/ghosts/pumpkins) and they returned to the house after 10 minutes with the correct answers, so they all got a "treat" (no onions on sticks here). They were very enthusiastic and made my efforts seem worthwhile.

Roll on next year (Christmas and Easter are next on the list, although it's our Golden Wedding Anniversary in December so that will also require something special).

Gordon
 
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