Bonfire celebrations are still a big thing down on the South coast of England; barrels of flaming tar are manhandled through the streets, and ENORMOUS bonfires lit; it's very much an inter-town rivalry thing. Whose bonfire's biggest!

But Halloween. Yes, the local kids tend to favour it over penny for the Guy 'cos you can dress up and you have a captive audience when you ring someone's doorbell. The kids who called at my door the other night were dressed up really cute; it was only after I closed the door that I recalled that the innocent little girl in the witch's outfit had had 666 written on her forehead! Scary!

Yesterday there were some kids at the local railway station with their Guy; they could have done with one of mouldy's egg box carton masks; they'd had to make do with a halloween skeleton mask. Not the same...

LFF