Well - they certainly love Hallowe'en here. Lots of serious decoration - even out in the country where not many kids would come calling - hanging ghosts and witches, pumpkin headed people in all sorts of poses, lights, jack-o-lanterns, spider webs etc.
We originally bought candy for 40 kids - then our next door neighbour told us she regularly got up to 100 (country kids get driven into town) - so back to the store for more chips and chocolate. Shirley said the kids started coming about 4:30PM (but I think she was remembering before the change in the date of day-light saving reversal - it used to be dark early on Hallowe'en). Wayne carved the pumpkin and we set it up in the north parlour window on the mini-scaffold we bought a few weeks ago (much easier to work in rooms with high ceilings now). He rigged up a sheet over a ladder with a light inside to look like a ghost behind the pumpkin. Then we waited.
The first children arrived at 6:20 and the last at 8:35. There were 22 of them - boy do we have a lot of chip bags and mini-chocolate bars to eat!
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