
Last night saw us out in the village with Tina, Mandy and Mr & Mrs Emma who had made a mad heroic dash up the motorway to indulge in the spectacle that is Halloween. The village itself was extremely busy and all the pubs and clubs were heaving with all manner of gory fancy dress spectacles. Eden was thankfully fairly quiet and we met up with the girls and were delighted to be joined by Jenny J and Marilyn and later the lovely Marlene.
We did chuckle at the irony that none of us had 'dressed-up' in Halloween costumes and to the out-sider it would appear that none of us had bothered to 'dress-up' little do they know!
The award for outrageous dressing for the night go to Emma for the shortest skirt this side of decency and to Kate for managing to walk in the worlds tallest killer heels (5" shoe boots).
At one point in the evening in Spirit which was packed out -Tina and I attempted to head for the ladies room and had to push our way through the crowds at one point our path was blocked by a guy dressed as a marsh-mallow and another one as a bananna......as Tina said "Follow that bannana"!
We ended the evening in a packed Naps where all of the worlds tallest T-Girls were in attendance...one of them dressed as a bride with a slashed throat turned my stomach as did a few of the costumes - it was just too weird.
For me Halloweeen is a time to be avoided - especially for children my memories of Halloween back in my distant childhood are quite innocent and mainly comprise of bobbing for apples and dressing as witches but it always an organised indoor party - never calling door to door intimidating people which is sadly what it has become in some parts.
Glad its all over for another year.....Just need to get bon-fure Night over then it will be time to slip into Christmas overdrive.