Sitting here smiling to myself as I look down the list of thread titles:-
'Stainless steel chain' and 'leather rope' Sorry am I still on Parrotforums?
Has Plum been dancing on my keyboard LOL?
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You got to be kidding
have you never had a spell cast on you by an English or Irish witch....Bubble Bubble Boil and Bubble... eye of toad and fang of wolf stirred together just for you...crest and feathers come to life create for Scott a singing 'n' Dancing Cockatoo Sitting here smiling to myself as I look down the list of thread titles:-
'Stainless steel chain' and 'leather rope' Sorry am I still on Parrotforums?
Has Plum been dancing on my keyboard LOL?
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I am seeing it in a whole new light now!
You got to be kidding
We are importing Halloween into the UK, well those with kids are
You got to be kidding
We are importing Halloween into the UK, well those with kids are
Did a bit of digging (pun intended!) into the origins of Halloween. Unsurprisingly, it is rooted in the modern-day UK and Europe. Some claim the holiday is based on the Celtic festival of Samhain.
Highly commercialized in the U.S, nearly 7 Billion USD were spent last year on candy, costumes, decorations, etc. It is sort of the kickoff to the winter holidays of Thanksgiving, various December celebrations, and New Years.
I eat my fair share of candy - almost exclusively chocolate!
You got to be kidding
We are importing Halloween into the UK, well those with kids are
Did a bit of digging (pun intended!) into the origins of Halloween. Unsurprisingly, it is rooted in the modern-day UK and Europe. Some claim the holiday is based on the Celtic festival of Samhain.
Highly commercialized in the U.S, nearly 7 Billion USD were spent last year on candy, costumes, decorations, etc. It is sort of the kickoff to the winter holidays of Thanksgiving, various December celebrations, and New Years.
I eat my fair share of candy - almost exclusively chocolate!
Yes it is becoming more and more commercialised over here ie costumes and trick or treating and all the paraphernalia that entails, buckets for the candy, wands, wigs, dresses, capes, etc, etc. From what I can gather years back, over here consisted of apple bobbing, swigging home made scrumpy/cider and eating certain foods.
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We had the apple bopping and ducking for apples and coins too and all kinds of games, and we all dressed up and went from house to house singing songs and reciting poetry or playing music and dancing to be rewarded with candy (we call candy sweets)and money and we often played pranks on the neighbours pretending to be ghosts or Banshees or other fearful creatures appearing out of nowhere to scare the daylights out of them...we also had the brack with little things hidden inside it like a ring which foretold of immenent marriage a piece of brown cloth for a taylor,white cloth for a nurse and black cloth for a priest or a nun and a coin for wealth among other things ...we all wanted to get the ring or the coin in our piece of brack LoL thats a whole life time ago now and I believe Halloween went out of fashion for a few years and passed with little fuss and then a few years back Halloween came back into fashion again and I now watch my grand nephews do the very same things we did when we were kids and play similar games the only difference is the costumes are now purchased and are no longer home made and they are a bit more realistically fancy and of course there sre a few more spooky characters about nowadays than there were a whole half a century ago and of course now a days too the houses are decorated for Halloween but basically not a whole lot has changed in the celebration of Halloween in Ireland in 50 years. Its still a Great Fun time of year when you can meet anyone from Dracula to Casper or the Banshee to the Walking Dead as you wander down the road...
Yes Scott Samhain is indeed an Irish thing...you can blame us for all of it LoL
Sitting here smiling to myself as I look down the list of thread titles:-
'Stainless steel chain' and 'leather rope' Sorry am I still on Parrotforums?
Has Plum been dancing on my keyboard LOL?
http://[URL=http://www.sherv.net/][...loor-laughing-smiley-emoticon.gif[/IMG][/URL]
I am seeing it in a whole new light now!
Would that be in fifty shades, Terry?
