Its Halloween tonight. And did you know its actually a western European (Celtic in origin) tradition to mark summers end and pay tribute to the dead and its celebrated by the English, Scottish and the Irish? Typically it went to the Americas with the immigrants and well need I say more.
We don’t celebrate (infact we never have celebrated this will be our second time) in the sense that we go crazy with the decorations or trick or treat; I don’t like that idea at all. The idea of give me something or I’ll cause mischief to your house which from what I have seen equates to I will egg your house um no that’s no how it works for me even in the name of tradition or festive fun. Where is the fun in someone scrubbing the veranda of foul smashed eggs because they didn’t participate in someone else’s tradition?
Yet the other idea of Halloween of bats, ghost stories and all its sweet spookiness just presents something a little bit fun. And last year husband was at work and it was just a really good way to add a little fun to the month. It was a month breaker. It was our first time so it was ab-it of a disaster but this year I have a little bit more of an idea.
We are having a halloween dinner.
So this morning I’m heading out to get some black card just to make some bats to hang from the dining room lights and blu tack to the wall a orange table cloth an viola we are Halloweened. To make it extra fun Im going all out and making dessert which we never have will have a Halloween theme. I’m thinking toffee apples which is traditional apparently and just a little bit of cake.
Its just a bit of fun.
A perfect distraction for the kiddies!
Happy Halloween lovelies,
xx Deb
