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What are you doing for Halloween/Samhain?

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VickyMcVities · 30/10/2024 07:15

Interested to hear what people are up to, big or small! Also looking for witchy ideas for myself!

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Norfolkbumpkin · 30/10/2024 09:03

We will be having our evening meal with a place set up for the departed in our family, then I'll put my Halloween costume on and hand out sweets to whoever comes to the door (mostly little ones. We don't really see teens in scream masks and hoodies in our village.

scalt · 30/10/2024 09:15

Incidentally, during Halloween 2020 when Boris Johnson was three hours late for his briefing, I did a Boris pumpkin, with messy hair on top, and a big sign saying "Boo for Boris". Only one family turned up and saw it! Everyone else was huddled inside, having the pants frightened off them by Matt Hancock saying "next slide, please". I'm sure it's not a coincidence that they picked that particular date.

As we were.

GiddyRobin · 30/10/2024 13:35

We're going to go guising when it gets dark (we start quite early as we've got a busy one), and then head down to the local Halloween event in the village! Everyone comes together and there's (hopefully!) a bonfire, mulled wine, morris dancing, costume competitions for kids and adults. Always a lovely couple of hours. Then back home for a party for the kids and their friends!

DH and I have decorated the house and made a spooky buffet (all the usual, but also colcannon as is Irish tradition, and there'll be places set at the table for those we've lost), so there'll be snap apple, duck apple, all that sort of thing. DH will play spooky tunes on the violin, the kids will generally go insane. When it all gets a bit too chaotic, the other kids will go home and we'll do spooky stories and our DC will probably crash out at around 11pm.

DH and I will collapse into bed with a glass of wine, probably still in costume, and watch a scary film.

I'd like to fit a ghost walk in there too, but doubt I'll manage it.

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SlugLettuce · 30/10/2024 13:37

I’ve got lots of sweets in for the trick or treaters and my youngest will be having his usual fancy dress sleepover. DH and I will probably see to them and then watch scary films with our eldest who is too cool to dress up these days. Grin

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