Fright Night....

Halloween is not normally a huge part of our annual agenda but this year all the girls wanted the fully bhoona, with Ly being particularly keen to try her hand at ‘trick or treating’ (possibly incentivised by getting her hands on lots of sweets). So with Tanya away in Banchory and unlikely to make it back in time, it was left to me to sort out costumes, including my own. Now not being too particular I decided that this year I would identify with a non-specific scary thing. You know, just look generally a bit scary and I honestly thought that this would pass muster with the locals as we trekked around. Clearly Niomi, Emily and Ly thought it would work, commenting on how scary I looked, and so we all set off round the neighbourhood.

All was going well - confectionary supplies were increasing very well, Ly had mastered the pronunciation and intonation of her joke successfully, Niomi had pretty much overcome her initial shyness and Emily was taking being an Elf well and truly in her stride. Then I was blindsided by a 6 year old. “Who are you supposed to be?” came the question. Well I just thought a general scary thing would have cut it but clearly you actually had to be ‘something.’ After a slightly pregnant pause I had a flash of inspiration and came up with ‘a ghoul’ on the basis that this 6 year old would likely have heard of a ghoul but not know what one looked like (although neither did I). Honestly, I thought I’d done really well with my last minute impromptu costume – but there’s no satisfying some folk.

The kids were all however more than satisfied, returning home with bags of sugary bounty galore, probably to find it will be rationed out over a very long period of time…..mwah, ha, ha, ha….

Scary Kit and Angry Face

General Scary Thing

Elf (having now read LOTR)

Non-scary Princess Fairy

The Living Dead

The Motley Crew