Bah Humbug... wait... wrong season.

So I talked Hubs into getting a couple of party bags of choccies for Trick or Treaters this year... and we were enjoying it. The 'kids' tended to be a bit too old, but they'd gone to the effort of dressing up and were generally pretty polite... then Hubs answered the door to two horrible fat kids who glared at him when he offered them chocolates as if he'd just spat in their eyes, then took some chocs and shuffled off without a word of thanks. Bah. Blatantly just after money. Blatantly. Ungrateful pricks. Those of you t'other side of the pond might not be aware that Halloween has only really been celebrated with anything nearing the enthusiasm that youse Yanks do for a few years. Trick or treating is a very new thing over here - I never did it as a kid. I think as more people get into it and get sweeties in if they're going to answer the door and not get caught short and resort to giving out pound coins, hopefully Trick or Treating will become more the little kids' thing that it seems to be over your way, and the surly adolescants will give up on using it as a means for acquiring fag money.

Anyway. We've gone back to hiding now. We're nearly out of sweeties anyway and anybody knocking at this time of night is much more likely to be a fat teenager in a clown mask than a posse of cute kiddies with their mums.

Bah!