So sorry I’m so late with my Fun Monday post but I have just returned from a day out in Stratford with the lovely Holly and the lovely Belle. We were planning to dance on Shakespeare’s Grave, or at least near it to show our love for the great man, but we wil have to save that for our day in November when, child free we will alight in Stratford for a girls day and a night with David Tennant in Loves Labour’s Lost. (Squeal.)
Sayre is todays host and she wants us to;
“Tell us about your favorite Halloween as a kid (pictures, if you have them!), and show us your costume for this year. If you’re not dressing up, show us a picture of a pumpkin carving that really tickled your fancy or how you decorated your house.”
I signed up for this Fun Monday with the thought in my head that I would actually be posting NEXT week when Halloween has happened and I will have photos a plenty. Yeah, me, gormless, sighhh.
I can’t share my favourite Halloween as a child as it didn’t really exist here then, but my kids have fun halloweens now so I may add some of those pics if I get chance next week .
Halloween is getting more popular over here though it’s not as big as it is in the states so I’m looking forward to reading your posts. And I still haven’t figured out how to download pictures from stockxchange as I can’t ‘right click’ on my Mac. Holl says something about ‘apple click’ but I see no fruit, so I will send you instead in the direction of some photos I took last year of Miss E posing beside the most enormous pumpkin I have ever seen in Covent Garden in London. Wait, stop, update time, I have just learned hot to apple click. Hooray.
See look.
I am so proud. 
As for our fabulous day? I will share pics and Miss M’s I-Spy talents with you tomorrow.
Happy Fun Monday to you all and if you want to read more about Halloween or see some fabulous pumpkins go here. You won’t be disappointed.
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October 27th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
It was lovely, wasn’t it! Highlights: Jeff’s declaration that the weather was a bit ‘outdoors-ish’; watching the Thrower dice with death as he fearlessly chased swans; Miss E and QOH chattering like two bestest friends; Miss M grabbing my hand and urging me to ‘come on!’; and best bestest bit, hugs from you and Holls
October 27th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Helen it was fab. Jeff is a sweetheart and was very patient with us all and you look so gorgeous. Miss M loved bossing you around and wants to see you again soon, hee hee. I have described your soups to Mr B and he wishes me to cook them for him which is a first, and I am now sipping wine and chilling after a great out doorsy day x
October 27th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Jo,
Halloween has been around since before ANY of us were born, and I believe it was celebrated in Europe first, as Samhain,,,yes?
but I get what you mean. And yes, we are all Halloween crazy over here. I will post some pictures soon of our pumpkins
October 27th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Those huge pumpkins freak me out. Attack of the Killer Pumpkins!
October 27th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Yes, Halloween/All Hallows Eve, etc was based on several pagan European festivals, but namely Samhain. It’s as ancient as the hills.
When I was a kid I loved Halloween even more than Christmas. It ws my favorite time of year. We’d get all dressed up in crazy home-made costumes so that nobody recognized us, and we’d walk all over the neighborhood (and when we got a bit older, other neighborhoods as well) and go Trick-or-Treating. We’d come home with loads of candy and treats, and we’d always collect change for Unicef in a small cardboard box, which we’d bring to school on Monday for the big donation bin. Whoever collected the most change got a cool prize. I remember the Unicef boxes had pictures of starving African children on them.
And the jack-o-lantern pumpkins were my favorite! We’d carve one every year, and put a candle inside and leave it on the front porch. But the best part was the feeling of thrilling scarines in the air as you scurried about in your costume, undetected by friends and family and neighbors!
October 27th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
That pumpkin is HUGE! Very cool pictures!
October 27th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Oh you English are such gardeners–makes us so envious. And, your little munchkin was just to adorable in her fall festival/Halloween attire.
Now on to really serious topics. How come you all get both Richard Armitage and Tennent? Is that fair?
October 28th, 2008 at 3:42 am
You don’t have to right click. Two button systems are for Windows losers and were discarded by Apple years ago. If you need to do the same thing you have two options, hold down the control key and click or hold down the apple command key (the one with the apple symbol on it). One of these will bring up a menu, much in the same way an old fashioned right click would and the other will do a specific action automatically. Once you get used to it you’ll see how much better it is. You have to unlearn all of your outdated Windows ways. Leave them to the Windows losers!
October 28th, 2008 at 3:59 am
Mie, Susan, when I say it didn’t exist I suppose I mean in its current form. We didn’t celebrate halloween as a nation particularly, it wasn’t a big event you know? But I realise the idea is as ancient as the hills and that it held great importance in times gone by. I never heard of Samhain but it makes me want to learn more. Looking forward to those pics Mie, and Susan your Halloweens sound fantastic.
Sybil those pumpkins were amazing. They have contests for growing enormous veg over here. It always makes me laugh.
Sandcastle Momma they are enormous aren’t they? Thanks.
Faye, not all of us are great gardeners I promise, hee hee, And we’re just lucky on the Armitage and Tennant front I suppose. ;D
October 28th, 2008 at 5:35 am
My dear boyfriend and I went to a Halloween fancy dress party on Saturday night – the theme was ‘The Gothic Romance’ – I went as a ‘Spider Queen’ (lots of black makeup – spider on my head etc) and db went as Robert Smith from The Cure (eyeliner, lipstick, massive black wig). All was fine until we passed through London Bridge station just as the Millwall match had finished. ‘Oh my GOD I can’t be seen looking like THIS in front of a load of Millwall fans!!’ I don’t think I’ve ever seen him move so quickly haha
Those giant pumpkins are fantastic aren’t they? I made pumpkin pie last Halloween – it’s definitely not the easiest vegetable to work with but was worth the trouble.
October 28th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Forget the pumpkins and tell us about David Tennant!
Um…wait…that was rude.
Looks like a fun time was had by all. Now, details woman!
October 28th, 2008 at 8:06 am
Photos of Mr. Tennant in action and sexy as ever to be posted here please…?
October 28th, 2008 at 10:41 am
i am silly excited that I remember that photo from last year. woo hooo! we’ve been friends for over a year.
October 28th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Avon thanks, I googled it and now I know what to do. I’ve got loads to learn but I love it.
Kim, snort, we’re going to see David playing Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost in Stratford this November. Belle has already seeen him in Hamlet this year and he walked past and touched her knee. Slurp. I touched the knee he touched. Swoon.
Cath, if we’re allowed to take pics I will ok.
October 28th, 2008 at 10:56 am
We have something here in on the 11th of November that’s called ST. Martinus Day, and the kids walk around with lampions and sing songs at the doors they go to and get a treat in return. No doubt it is a cleaned up version of an old pagan festival.I know they used to carve sugar beets and other types of those kind of vegetables and put candles in them in the olden days. The church cleaned up many pagan festivals this way.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:55 am
next time I am going to read the WHOLE post before I rush off to email instructions that are not needed! LOL
October 28th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Jo Beaufoix those are mighty big pumpkins. Our local grocery store had a contest to guess the weight of a very large pumpkin. Although I ventured a guess, I was hoping not to win. What would one do with an enormous pumpkin?
October 29th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I was many times in London in the 90th as my son lived there for 10 years and I have never seen any Halloween there either. It’s even less celebrated in Ireland where it is coming from ! I like it it’s fun !