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!

No idea Abraid2.

I saw an advert for PYO Pumpkins yesterday - maybe she saw it to and thats what set her off.

Bloody pumpkins!

Oh God my wish of seeing toddlers being Alan Partridge portraying a zombie (I saw that at an adult Halloween party complete with shortbread biscuits sellotaped to face) has been eclipsed by a previous poster suggesting OP have a wicker man aflame!.

Oh sod that mini aerosol spray and a lighter each personalised with their name engraved.

Fires & candles aren't just at Halloween. So whilst I understand her feelings, CW's campaign for better fancy dress is entirely appropriate and where she should be focusing her attention. As you so rightly pointed out Keith.

Op please what fb page was this?? I really want to see this!!

Hilarious, we trick or treat, we have allergies and live in a small village. I sent a note to my neighbours we visit with sweets my children can eat. With a photo of them in their costume and a small note saying briefly that we hope they dont mind but when they see these 3 dressed up could they please hand out the candy provided. It was 6 houses all close neighbours who we know well.

I would not have the audacity to put something on the village fb page demanding the entire village spend a fortune on carefully sourced sweets or flame proof pumpkins.

I'd find it so hard to resist replying. Some folk have some odd ideas.

Either post a recipe for some nut & dairy pumpkin candles, or announce that your child is actually allergic to pumpkins and, indeed, polyester (so her costume will be woven out of quinoa) and request hiddenhome2 's suggestion of print-outs of pumpkins instead (printed on recycled cauliflower paper, which you can provide if necessary).

Cover yourself in fake blood on the day. When people knock on your door uninvited to make demands with menaces, open it screaming and waving a toy machete in the air.

You want Halloween, you got it.

(I don't do this, of course. I just fantasise about it every year.)

Better yet, just hand out apples and bananas. Best way to piss trick or treaters right off.

I think the candle part was OK in theory, but as others have said badly worded. Maybe she could have just warned people generally about candle risks re costumes rather than citing her specific party

The allergy bit is silly as people will surely check what their kids are eating if they have allergies.

She's quite wrong about the allergies anyway. One of my DDs has allergies. Every Halloween we go trick or treating, then I go through her sweeties bag at the end of the evening and eat everything to which she is allergic. It's ace .

(I do compensate her with plenty of "safe" candy, I'm not that cruel).

Place marking, this thread is hilarious!

DH used to live in a very small village on the edge of a very large council estate, every year the elderly residents of the village would put flyers through the doors on the council estate, asking families to 'please keep control of their children' and do not allow them to trick or treat in the village as something always got vandalised!

Snarf!!! If she's that nervy she shouldn't be doing it. She's clearly absolutely bonkers.

I'd give them each a battery powered candle as if I misunderstood the post

I am sitting here lost in admiration for LemonySmithit's approach to cold callers.

Oh FGS, 2 year olds have the attention span of a gnat. The kids will probably be out for half an hour at most before someone needs the potty / cries / has a tantrum / gets lost / tries to kill himself by running in front of a car or choking on a sweet etc. 2 year olds are too young to be out trick r treating unless they're tagging along with older sibings. Sounds very very PFB.

Just have a little Halloween party at home at that age where fire / choking / allergy hazards can all be easily controlled.