Thursday, October 30, 2014

Halloween - Singing a wee song, getting nuts and tangerines


Where we live they're celebrating Halloween tonight. Yep. Today is the 30th of October and kids will be oot and aboot, dressed up, looking for candy. Don't ask me why we rarely celebrate Halloween on the actual day. I do know that tomorrow it's supposed to rain, so, regardless, tonight should be better overall. 

It's fun looking at the decorations people have.



Now, that's a BIG spider! It doesn't look real, fortunately.


This front yard is covered with skeletons and gory-looking objects. I was scared just walking by in broad daylight!




I wonder what happened to Stupid and I'm with Stupid?  Ha ha.



These are more of the scary things in the front yard. You wonder who placed all these odd things. And why.

When I was growing up in Scotland we didn't have decorations for Halloween. Nope. In fact, we didn't even get candy when we went to the neighbours' houses. We usually were give nuts, tangerines, and maybe a sixpenny bit. Yay!  We certainly did  NOT yell out, "Trick or Treat". We knocked on the door and asked if there was anything for Halloween. The people would invite us in and, guess what we had to do? We had to sing a wee song, recite a poem, or even do a wee dance. Then were give our loot and off we'd go pleased and fair chuffed with our pile of goodies.