To think this is bloody cheeky (Facebook and Halloween related)

[CatThiefKeith]

Someone on our village FB page has posted this today:

I'm planning a Halloween party for my two year old and his two year old friends this year. We will be out and about trick or treating.... Can I just ask that only electric candles are used in your pumpkins please. You can buy these cheaply enough online and in Pound shops. Claudia Winkleman's daughter was badly hurt last year when her fancy dress costume caught light after the dress touched the candle in a pumpkin on a neighbours doorstep. Also, please remember that many children suffer with food allergies, so please, be careful when purchasing sweets and ensure that they don't contain nuts or dairy.

AIBU to think that you can't go round demanding an entire village uses electric candles and telling them what sweets they can and can't buy? My fingers are itching but dh has decreed I am not allowed to get into any more rows on that particular page!

Aren't candles usually inside the pumpkins? I don't see the risk really if they are sensible and if they aren't they are supervised.

This person needs to be told she's ridiculous even if it upsets the village harmony.

Speaking of Zombies, this just popped up on my local FB page too.

Zombie invasion

I'm not sure if it is really cool or absolutely barking!

The amount of likes your sensible reply gets V the amount of likes her Mariah Carey-esque requests gets will give you a good indication as to the level of fuckwittery in your village.

I wonder what she will post for fireworks night?

Her 2, Me 4 at the moment!

Poundland are doing a pack of electric night lights.

I do trick or treating with my little boy. But we go to the houses of a few neighbours that we know who have okayed us calling in advance.

Cat : I didn't a zombie evacuation run for my first and only ever 5k race. Was brilliant!

Oops, did a not didn't!

I'd be tempted to dress as a giant squirrel brandishing an enormous flaming walnut. ..

I hope, OP, that you are planning a giant, flaming Wicker Man as your front garden display.

Is it only me or do others think Halloween can be too scary for 2 year olds and trick or treating with them at that age is a bad idea? i remember a fair proportion of that age group bursting into tears and running out when Santa came into the room at toddlers at Christmas.

I think two is too young to really understand most things. You take a two-year-old trick-or-treating chiefly because you can't leave it home alone while the bigger kids get a kick out of it. You don't organise the whole thing around them.

Poundland electric candles are shite, I bought a pack of 4, 2 broke just getting taken out of the package.

Lemony that's so rude. I hope you told her to do one!

Lemony I am very impressed!

Don't underestimate Halloween guilt though; I forgot to buy any sweets for Halloween 2011, since DS1 was 4mo old at the time, and felt so guilty at all the little sad faces on Halloween night that I took DH upstairs for some 'alone time' to make me feel better. And now we have DS2

That's like an Aesop's Fable LaContessa.

The moral of the story is don't forget Halloween sweets unless you want to become upduffed.

Why do people do this?! Local fb pages are full of these uppity twunts.

I always think of him as my Halloween baby

She failed to suggest that all homes in the village are CRB checked

Trick or treating for 2 year olds is a bit daft anyhow must of them are scared of pumpkins and scary masks.

Agree with it being stupid to take two year olds trick or treating . I have no problem with sweets in moderation but why expose them to the Halloween sugar fest earlier than necessary? The women seem so bloody entitled.

I think she's got a point about the candles, they can be dangerous even if she has put it in what can be construed as an entitled way
The allergy thing, though? I'd be thinking 'jog on, I'll buy what I bloody well like."
This coming from someone with allergies myself so completely not minimising them or anything, I know how awful they are.
When it comes to trick or treating though, and people are kind enough o buy sweets for kids who come round begging at strangers doors to give to them?
Get what you're bloody well given and be grateful you're getting anything at all. If you're allergic, maybe try not going out asking pestering for sweets to be on the safe side then.

Why post this weeks and weeks before the event?