Not mentioning the T word at all

Bobbykins

Well, after all the talk of chilli on Saturday, I spent all day yesterday craving spicy food. Unfortunately didn't have the ingredients (or the motivation to be honest) to make something. My wonderful OH, full of a cold, decided that a curry would help him "sweat it out" so took me out to the local indian for their Sunday special. Not very OS on the face of it but it was five courses for a tenner! Nomnomnomnom................
Bonus is I still have the piece of gammon I had originally intended to cook yesterday and should be able to s-t-r-e-t-c-h it for most of the week.

gailey_2

Wish me luck as doing more halloween cakes later not my strongpoint also going to try teacake spiders. have no idea how many kids visiting.

Hubbies ate most of the sweet so gone to get more as well as eggs, butter, sugar.
think its working out quite cheap doing fairy cakes though and looks like made more effort than just sweets.

eldest very exited. she and daddy decorated the porch with halloween tinsle 50p in primarnie sale last year and balloons.

hubby taking our 2 plus indys freind trickle treating round the estate later.
im staying in with baby and at door for people who come trickle treating.

According to wright stuff its 3rd most expensive event of year.
i guess xmas and easters more.
getting much more americanised I guess.

Hope everyones ok and having nice day.

rachbc

its halloween tastic here - OH favourite holiday! Trick or treating is huge on our street and we get 60+ kids calling. We decoarte the house and garden - OH lines the path with flaming torches, pumpkins on the steps leading to the house were the porch is covered in spiders webs, a skelleton lounges on the porch swing and a dry ice machine rolls fog down the steps. The garden is dotted with gravestones and a eary illuminated ghost dangles from the trees. Those looking carefully might see the shillouete of a hanging man in the upstairs window.....

knock on the door if you dare but who will answer.......

All the stuff is home made or bargain buys - think we've spend £5 on sweets/ treats and a couple of quid on meths for the torches this year.

bluebag

Pink-winged wrote: »

Sorry Jackie, I should have known how you meant it. xx I'm just a bit over-sensitive at the moment.

Pink

Sensitivity is a really nice thing, it shows you have empathy and understanding.

I think we could do with a lot more more of it and a lot less of the I couldn't give a t*ss stuff.

You are doing great.

Justamum

gailey wrote: »

hubby taking our 2 plus indys freind trickle treating round the estate later.
im staying in with baby and at door for people who come trickle treating.

It's Trick or Treat isn't it? If you don't give a treat then a trick is played on you.

Over here it's called Hop tu naa, and children come round singing the Hop tu Naa song. We don't get any up where we are because I think children find it a bit scary walking up here in the dark :rotfl:

CCP

gailey wrote: »

hubby taking our 2 plus indys freind trickle treating round the estate later.

Justamum wrote: »

It's Trick or Treat isn't it? If you don't give a treat then a trick is played on you.

I've always called it trickle treating, too - I think it just sounds better than the 'real' name!

I don't celebrate halloween so I've only got one decoration - a pure black cat. He's there all year round, though, so I'm not sure if he counts - he doesn't look particularly scary stretched out on the sofa anyway!

katieowl_2

Afraid I cracked and spent £3.99 on a bunch of halloween flowers in Aldi. I was in there Saturday and my DD who works there asked if I'd seen them, they are my favourite colour combination of purple and orange and have some lovely dark black (dyed) foliage...oh and a witch on a stick!!! I've got them in the window with my yankee candle and shade I bought last Halloween (not very OS) it's got a purple glass shade with owls on...but I think that will be it. I've got some nice decorations, but they are in the cupboard under the stairs, and I've been giving the sitting room a good clean today, and can't face dragging all that out, just for a few decs. When I get everything out at Xmas, I'll make sure it goes back more accessibly.

I'll make some butternut squash soup for tonight, Aldi were knocking them out at 69p each, so I stocked up. I've got some leftover rice from last nights dinner that I'm going to have for lunch, and then I need to attempt to hoover the pit of doom that is DS's room. He treats the place like a squat! Little git!

I spoke to one of my friends in London last night, and I hope I've convinced her not to send us anything for Xmas, I know she's in dire straights (she's got mental health problems and was sacked because of it) she always wants to 'do' christmas, and I'm not being unkind (honestly) but she always sends really random tat, and we'd all rather she kept her £££ for herself and her dog. There's five of us too, and one of her, so it's all very unequal. I told her she can send DD something for her birthday in Dec. if she wants...but PLEASE spend what she'd spend on us on food for the dog and her!

I'm feeling really quite odd today, can't put my finger on it... I've got that vague sense something bad is happening/about to happen. I get it from time to time, and it doesn't alway materialise.

Kate

EstherH

I saw a cat playing 'cat and mouse' with a mouse outside my window once. It was fascinating but so cruel and I had to go and chase the cat off. But they really do 'play' with them before they kill them. She would let it run then jump on it, let it go and turn her back and when it ran turn and jump again.

However, the magpies round here are tougher than the cats. The cat climbs the tree where they nest, and two magpies tease the cat. One flies around its head and the other nips it's tale. The cat does its nut. So funny to watch.

I'm going to try and make pie out of yesterday's left over dinner now. The trying is because I don't feel at all well and am not really up to making pastry but there isn't enough left for us all if I don't try and stretch it. Esther x

FarmersWife_2

Hi

Can I join in? Ive had a read through some of the posts....

Its getting a bit black overhead now.... time to light the log burner me thinks before picking DD2 up from school.

C x

EstherH

Maybe best to let it go over yur head Justamum. We don't want to spoil this thread too.

The snow in America has been bad by the looks of it. We didn't really get ours this month did we? I know on the high hills in Scotland it snowed but I don't think it really hit most places like they said. Might be wrong though.
Wonder if we are going to get a bad winter again. It seems to me to have been quite mild so far, we haven't had the heating on yet but think I might give in now that it has got to the end of the month. It gets damp without it. Esther x