Happy Halloween! I’m hoping the neighbourhood kids don’t take all the sweeties tonight so I can have something nice instead of as well as my dinner – especially as we brought lots of retro sweets that they’ll never truly…
halloween
Today was gorgeous and sunny and a fabulous day to visit the local pumpkin festival… I bought some lovely samples from the local allotment socirty (a bit too dark to photograph now) but nowhere near as big as some…
In Great Britain, the whole ‘halloween being a big deal’ thing is a phenomenon that certainly wasn’t present during my own childhood. I’m happy to jump onto this particular bandwagon though, as it is a relatively inexpensive holiday that…
I kind of like halloween, but I kind of don’t. I love the pumpkins, they make me very happy. I used to like the vague themes that this time of year brought with it – the odd cobweb on…
Meet “Pumpy” and “Lumpy”, two HOME-GROWN squashes who enticed the neighbourhood children to our home last night to steal all our sweets and chocolate! I thought we might be in for an egging when we ran out of and…
Today we went to Asda and brought the hugest pumpkin we could find – it’s way bigger than my own head (and that’s bigger than most people’s heads, it really is – I can never get hats to fit).…