My daughter and I have the honour of making the Guy this year for my cousin's Guy Fox bonfire. We're sticking to the tradtional stuff that we did as a kids. The base is an old dress dummy, but the rest is newspapers and old clothing and the head, a slightly deflated basketball that's been lying in the dog run for about ten years. I'm hoping his head might explode.

My cousin resurrected the family tradition a few years back, in honour of a beloved uncle, who along with his love of a good pint, his loud call in the middle of festivities of, " IS EVRYBODY HAPPY?!!! made Hallowe'en extra special for us when we were small, by importing and incorporating his very English traditions into our yearly quest for candy.

I think we make the neighbours very nervous as we don't light the bonfire and fireworks on Hallowe'en, which is the usual ritual here on the west coast of Canada.