Jo Beaufoix » halloween http://www.jobeaufoix.com Like Kate Moss. But not. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:57:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Trick or Treat, Smell my Feet http://www.jobeaufoix.com/2010/10/31/trick-or-treat-smell-my-feet/ http://www.jobeaufoix.com/2010/10/31/trick-or-treat-smell-my-feet/#comments Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:29:44 +0000 Jo Beaufoix http://www.jobeaufoix.com/?p=5902

We trick or treated.

It was our first time.

It was good.

We only went to well lit houses, or houses with pumpkins in windows, and the house with half the front lawn dug up and a vampire climbing out of a grave  and a lady with a scythe and a scary looking man who wasn’t actually in costume…

I don’t think we scared anybody, I don’t think we were a nuisance, and it was lovely seeing the smiles on so many faces, young and old as we took a night out to dress up, be silly and meet some of the neighbours.

It’s made me realise even more how much I like where we live.  There are good people here.  I’m so glad this house came along when we needed it.

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It is a night ripe for mischief, ripe for ghosts and ghouls, and for the little people, those eerie creatures that enter our hearts, our minds and our souls, and never relinquish their grip.

Here are mine…

 

And if that wasn’t scary enough, I’ve signed up for NaNoWriMo again this year.

Mwah ha ha ha haaaaaa.

Happy Halloween 

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You see, Miss M is a bit of a wuss. She’s terrified of the lawn mower, hates the hoover/vacuum and cowers from the hand dryers in public toilets. When someone set off a claxon in the local baths during her swimming lesson the other day she nearly jumped out of the pool, so what she would think of the ’still beating heart’, the ’severed head swallowing a rat’ or the ’scary man who laughs and then lifts off his own head’ I could only guess. But I had to give her a chance, I mean, this stuff is going to be everywhere for the next few weeks and I’d love her to enjoy it, so we sauntered in nonchalantly and let them discover and explore.

It seems I needn’t have worried, though I may have to educate Miss M in the correct way to wear a devil mask.

Mwah ha ha haaaaaaa.

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