Halloween around the corner

I got my start on it yesterday, and today did a bit more. I was flipped when someone unknown cut down our clothes line and took half of it. They also took the flea collar off our cat bear.
Well anyway It maybe too early we usually get stuff out later but I have a lot I want to get out.

I don't usually think of halloween this early in the year, Erin, but this has caught my imagination:



3rd October - 1st November 2014

This unique Old Courts Halloween Tour will lead you deep into the bones of Wigan's late Victorian courthouse, through the abandoned cells and corridors, the stairways and cellars before ending in the Court itself for a Halloween fair with chilling fun. link

There'll be a few off here appearing in that.

Old Wigan Courthouse? frightening?

Try a stroll through the catacombes in Palermo, Sicily!

I think the Old Wigan Courts Tour can give that a run for its mummy, Tonker.

'Performers have been drawn from across the borough ... to create what organisers say is a unique and terrifying experience in which you'll never know what lurks around the next corner.' (Local Life Magazine)

Some people cannot wait for Halloween to pass, Some are afraid because of the anti-social behaviour that it creates. Its all right for youngsters to dress up and walk round with their parents but different when its teenagers going round in their gangs causing damage/threatening people under the guise of Trick or treat Halloween today is going like all things American over the top and if you ask most people under the age of 30 they have no idea what its about

busiest day of the year for my ex-wife.

Hahaha!

loved her to bits recycling size portions .joking of course.

Tinker have you been to the Palermo catacombs?I'm jealous.I've seen programmes a out them and read quite a lot about them on line.I think they are fascinating.

Most of Massena is haunted, we got spankys restaurant where underground railroad starts or ends whichever. We have ghosts or whatever in our place.

Has anyone been on an Old Courts Halloween Tour yet? I don't know if I dare!

There's also to be a Halloween ball (over 16's) - www.wiganeventsguide.com

@OldCourtsEvents:

Want to know what the Old Courts are like and see bits of the Halloween Tour in advance...?

Then check out Merry Hell's new video - The Ghost in Our House

Self Pick, a fruit & veg shop in Atherton Rd, Hindley, are holding a 'guess the weight of the pumpkin'.

For a chance to win a huge pumpkin & a £25 voucher to be spent in store, pop in and have a go.

It's £1 to enter, all proceeds to Wigan & Leigh Hospice link



Winner to be announced on 29th October

@WindyArbourFS: Guess the giant pumpkin's weight, win £20 shopping voucher! Check the photo for details @WL_Hospice



www.windy-arbour.co.uk

Does anyone know when that competition finishes? Edit: I've found out it finishes at Halloween.

Kazz123 hasn't given the Old Courts Halloween Tour a good review over on Places- link

Well i think our apartment is haunted by all the people who lived and died there.

Me to Erin. I live in 200 year old property There must be lots of people died here.

the place I live is from the civil war 1850-60's. Many people while we have been living here died not all here. We sure heard some weird and felt stuff too

Indeed.. weird. Erin.. Take care.

I'd find that very unnerving, Erin & Erontquay.

Greater Manchester Police - News (29/10/14):

Residents across Gtr Manchester are being advised to display Halloween flyers in their homes to let trick or treaters know if they are welcome or not.

The flyers are part of the annual Treacle campaign, and can be downloaded here (top right)

still trying to see what I want to be for halloween. Is it true that people in the UK still take alhallows eve seriously?

The Self Pick fruit & veg shop's pumpkin weighed 58.6 kilo and the winning guess was 60kg. (from FB)

Windy Arbour Farm Shop's pumpkin is being weighed this morning & is then off to Saddleworth to star as the giant lantern at a Halloween party. (@WindyArbourFS)


From Twitter - @Joannechocolat (author):

#TenHalloweenFacts

1. Hallowe'en, or All Hallows Eve, is the night preceding All Hallows (or all Saints) Day, and was for remembering the dead.

2. Before that it was Samhain, the yearly Gaelic festival that marked the start of the dark quarter of the year.

3. All over Europe, this was a night where the dead were believed to return as ghosts and visit the living.

4. Offerings of food (often cakes and sweet things) were often left on doorsteps to placate the hungry ghosts.

5. This later became a tradition during which children would dress as ghosts, and come door to door, asking for sweets.

6. Often, in homes, people would lay place settings for their dead relatives and talk to them throughout the meal.

7. The Church once designated All Hallows Eve as a fast day. This may explain the tradition of vegetarian Hallowe'en foods like: potato cakes; apples; pumpkin; turnip.

8. In England, we made jack o' lanterns, usually from a hollowed-out turnip (swede), to resemble the skulls of the dead.

9. Bonfires were traditionally lit, and songs sung against the coming of the dark nights and the perils of winter.

10. Like many pagan festivals, it has been claimed by the Church, but the darkness remains, and we fight it as we can...

The QI Elves - @qikipedia: '

Trick or Treat' comes from Souling, a European custom where children knocked on doors & asked for gifts in return for prayers for the dead.