Hello All I can see you have all been very busy this week with Our Good Lord’s Treasure Hunt (2). As you can imagine I am very airy fairy brained and much too dim witted to get any of the clues right, unlike the very clever ErastEnders who seem to be guessing them all correctly.

Well come Friday, a grey mist will descend, witches will start to cackle, ghosts will come out “a spooking”, devils and imps will be up to mischief, Zombies will rise, yes it’s Halloween.

My Friday night has been planned out, three of my friends are coming round, we plan to have a nice home made curry, chill out on the sofa and watch spooky movies all night. We will all purchase something spooky so if we get any trick or treaters, we will all be ready to answer the door and scare the living daylights out of them.

I just wondered what everyone thought of trick or treating. Now we all know this is really an American tradition (I am sure Mr Locked can fill us in on the custom over there), but over the last couple of years it has become more and more popular over here.

As I live down quite a spooky lane we rarely get many children knocking on the door, but, I am more than happy to buy goodies ready in case they do knock. I would rather spend a few quid on sweeties rather than have to clear egg of my windows. To me it is not a big deal as most of the kids that knock on my door have a parent lurking nearby, and most of them are under 4ft tall and are so grateful for whatever little treat you give them.

However I wonder how I would feel if I was a pensioner who lived in a fairly busy area to have 6 or 7 teenagers knock on my door and demand something good otherwise I would have my property damaged in some way. I am sure this is how some pensioners see it, as it is not always younger children that trick or treat and quite often you do get a couple of teenagers in scream masks knocking at your door and they do tend to turn their noses up at mini milky ways.

Is there some kind of etiquette that should be followed? What is acceptable as a “treat”? What is acceptable as a “trick”? What is the latest you should be allowed to go round and “trick or treat”? What are your general thoughts on this whole custom it would be interesting to find out.

Happy Halloween and don’t get too spooked!

Tinks X