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If you are the middle-class dad who thought it was alright for his young teenage kids to spray orange juice* over my window sills in Melbourne Grove last night feel free to come round and wipe it off it off. You stood there, chatted to us in a friendly manner and then let your kids accept chocolate (what bit of trick OR treat don't you get?)from us. And then this is what we find in the morning, on a working morning when we could do without it.


*edited to add "possibly not even organic" (OK, know I am having a sense of humour failure, but am really irritated)

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Agree it's hardly a 'hideous crime' but to answer you Curmudgeon and Kapt Kopter


We only had four sets of trick or treaters and my small son spent the evening peeping out of the windows hoping someone would come.


Unlike the others, this group didn't come straight to the door, but rustled about treading on the cardboard packaging in front of my windows, before they got round to ringing the bell. The other three groups (who I also know) rushed straight up the path.

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