The shops are full of Halloween tat: masks, ghosts, skeletons, witches' hats, fake spider webs and so on - not to forget, of course, pumpkins (which we never normally see in our stores). When I was a child it was not 'a thing' but over the years we seem to have borrowed from the US and imported a lot of the drama. I'm not sure it's a good thing, given the amount of evil there is in the world as it is, but most people would argue it's 'just a bit of fun'.
I didn't need to buy any props. I found enough to scare me out on my walk! ;)
And here's the same photo that I showed earlier, taken in Hirst Woods, but given a radically different colour palette. Spooky or what?
These are great for the day.
ReplyDeleteSame here about Halloween. In my childhood, it was something we only knew from TV, but of course there was the big US-American presence of military and their families in my area, and they did a lot to introduce it to their host nation.
ReplyDeletePumpkins are big here all of autumn, people buy them for the kitchen as much as for decoration. My partner's Mum grows butternut in her garden, and I regularly get some from her to turn into oven-roasted veg, soups or stews.
Your pictures are very apt!