It 's Halloween!!??

[marshlander]

Maybe it's because I'm becoming a fully fledged grumpy old man that I dislike so much the strange importing of American Halloween over the past few years. I resent being made to feel inadequate because I don't remember that for some totally artificial reason I'm supposed to buy a stock of junk food to give out willy-nilly to grubby urchins who come knocking on my door expecting to be rewarded. I'm nervous of going out too in case some wag decides my father should be "tricked" for being even less in tune with this racket than I am. Anyone knows the time for trick or treating should be Plough Monday!