All Hallows eve (in East Dulwich - what to expect)

[phillyboy]

This is our first year in ED. Should we expect some visits from some trick or treaters...

[CamberwellOz]

We had loads of little children knocking on our door for sweets quite early in the evening last year. I loved it and had a whole load of sweets ready. Other than that - we just had loads of fireworks but we back onto Lettsom Gardens, so that is the norm through the whole of November.

I'm a sucker for any of this really.... Easter, Christmas, Halloween, Valentines Day, Mothering Sunday, Father's Day. I'm Hallmark's dream client.

[Ted Max]

CamberwellOz, that's not the attitude at all. I think you will find you were plagued by greedy f*ck trophies, overly influenced by American TV into demanding money with menaces, and that your elderly neighbour (who doesn't exist) was really scared by the whole thing.

Phillyboy, depending on exactly where you are, I would expect maybe a few rings of the doorbell, but nothing wholesale.

[phillyboy]

We live next to Heber School, oh well I have the misses go to Franklins and pick up some nice organic fruit for the little darlings :)

[Brendan]

I?m boiling up a vat of sprouts to hand out. That?ll learn ?em to come disturbing me on beer and pizza night.

[Xanadustar]

We did get our front door egged a few years ago ('twere a bugger to get off). Not really fair as we were out celebrating my birthday!

[Brendan]

I can never remember, is it shooting kids with a pellet gun from the upstairs window that upsets the police or not shooting them?

[Michael Palaeologus]

It depends whether you gave a verbal warning.

I think if you shout "Armed Grumpy Old Man!" a nano-second before letting rip then you can blast away with impunity.

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

If you get a crowd of the bastads, a super soaker filled with bleach or pigs blood usually does the trick.

Being ED, make sure you get organic pigs blood :))

[Moos]

In our household a chubby toddler is being dressed as a pumpkin, pumpkin pie will be scoffed and sweets will be offered to small children who come by dressed as witches, wizards, skellingtons and so on. Apologies for the lack of appropriate ED irony, but I suspect we'll have a lot of fun.

[Brendan]

Does someone have a vicious looking dog I can borrow for the evening? I will give them a chew toy in the shape of a severed human arm and have them sit on the doorstep all evening.

Chav does wossisname, Hannibal isn?t it, have any plans?

[aliceb]

I've never had any Trick or Treaters round here. But that might be because our door bell was broken for four years.

[Brendan]

Was I broken by trick-or-treaters 4 years back by any chance?

[EDOldie]

I've got this Jonathan Ross mask, should scare the living sh*t out of everyone.

[Michael Palaeologus]

"In our household a chubby toddler is being dressed as a pumpkin, pumpkin pie will be scoffed and sweets will be offered to small children who come by dressed as witches, wizards, skellingtons and so on. Apologies for the lack of appropriate ED irony, but I suspect we'll have a lot of fun"

MOOS - I have already told you that I do NOT find being kidnapped and dressed as bloody PUMPKIN funny. If I have to throw bite sized Mars Bar at anymore denizens of Disk-world I will not be held responsible for my actions.....

... and take this sodding nappie off me, I feel like a right pillock

... and NO I do not want another Fruit-Loop, give me BEER. I need one.

[buggie]

....quick Moos - more calpol he's waking up a bit!

[jim_the_chin]

5 lots of visitors round here tonight, a bumper year. the bowl is emptying fast, and all well dressed up and super polite I might add.

[Jimbob]

apple dunking anyone. halloween as long as i can remember from my childhood in ireland was always about the children and bah humbug to anyone who suggests otherwise. lots of callers at my gaff tonight, the more the merrier.

[ratty]

only 2 calls so far at ratty towers, we have enough choc to sink a ship

[kford]

One call so far: polite kids in great outfits with cheery parents chaperoning them. Gave 'em a couple of handfuls of penny mixes. Sweet.

[bawdy-nan]

We've been round to our neighbours trying to give away cakes the kids baked earlier. They like dressing up, they like being out in the dark they like the idea of visiting neighbours. Only managed to give away two everyone else refused to answer. Mean spirited buggers won't be getting any christmas cheer from me.

[Pickle]

We've had quite a lot of kids round here tonight. All dressed up brilliantly, very polite, it's been a pleasure. Have now decided it's too late for trick or treaters and we're eating the remainder of the sweets!

[WickedStepmother]

Here's my recipe for a quiet Halloween, free of the attentions of little ghouls, animated pumpkins and baby witches and warlocks...

First year you move in, stock up on loads and loads of lovely, luscious juicy fruit! Peaches, berries, grapes, plums, tropical anything you can think of. Hand out in generous quantities with friendly smiles to all who knock at your door...

And no one will ever, ever, knock on your door again.

Kind of sad really. But it works.

[trident]

We had no one this year at all and I have to say I'm rather dissapointed - mind you, we do get all the sweets :)

[????]

Only 4 vists - we have a large, but shrinking, pot of mini-mars/milky ways etc left......my healty breakfast has long since been abandoned for the pot in a winny the poo dipping into honeypot type way