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In preparation for this year's annual festival of knife-wielding children wandering the streets, Whitney did a fantastic job decorating the windows of the house with paper spiders and pumpkins. We had also prepared a genuine pumpkin earlier in the week, but unfortunately by the time this evening came round it had collapsed in on itself in a pile of mulch and didn't look tremendously frightening - on reflection, above the radiator wasn't the best place for it.
The only time I've ever actually seen someone guysing was when I was at a Halloween party at Graeme's, dressed as Eddie from Bottom. An eight year old rang the bell shortly after I arrived - the boy hadn't even got dressed up at all, so it was a disappointing effort all round. The door was answered by Rob, who is about seven feet tall and happened to be adorned with a hockey mask, tarpaulin and chainsaw, so I'm sure he paid for his chocolate with at least mild mental scars.
Whitney and I didn't know how popular the practice of going round to people's houses and demanding sweets from them was here, so to placate the hordes that may have been arriving on our doorstep we bought a huge bowlful of chocolates. It's now twenty-two past midnight, so it doesn't look like we'll be giving them out at all. On the positive side, though, that means that we now have a huge bowlful of chocolates.
The only time I've ever actually seen someone guysing was when I was at a Halloween party at Graeme's, dressed as Eddie from Bottom. An eight year old rang the bell shortly after I arrived - the boy hadn't even got dressed up at all, so it was a disappointing effort all round. The door was answered by Rob, who is about seven feet tall and happened to be adorned with a hockey mask, tarpaulin and chainsaw, so I'm sure he paid for his chocolate with at least mild mental scars.
Whitney and I didn't know how popular the practice of going round to people's houses and demanding sweets from them was here, so to placate the hordes that may have been arriving on our doorstep we bought a huge bowlful of chocolates. It's now twenty-two past midnight, so it doesn't look like we'll be giving them out at all. On the positive side, though, that means that we now have a huge bowlful of chocolates.
