What about the ten years you've lived after that? The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
I'm sure Mischief Night was bigger when I was young (a long time ago). Which was the night before halloween and seemed to be just the trick part of trick or treat.
I hate it, it's up there with Valentines Day for tackiest ****e shops can flog. Does give an interesting glimpse into today's children's minds though; I dropped my five year old off for her KS1 school disco, at least 20 kids came dressed as murderous clowns. My little one was a Disney princess because she didn't feel like being scary, she wanted to be magical. She's ****ing ace.
Never used to think much of it between the ages of 9 and 15 but kids now think it's quite cool to have been born on Halloween
The origin of Halloween is older than Bonfire Night (1605), I preferred Bonfire Night as a lad but health and safety has stopped a lot of the local big fireworks displays and the increase in pet ownership is putting pressure on fireworks so Halloween has now taken over, good for young kids dressing up etc, both are a good buffer stopping Christmas getting any bloody earlier.
Blame the two local ginger-haired countries for this thing - they had a different name for it - Samhain (pronounced Sow, as per female pig-inn)
Likewise my teenage children prefer Halloween to Christmas these days & I don’t get it at all. We are normally are on holiday for Halloween as it usually falls on half term hols & it is massive around Spain too. Last year there was 10000s off kids dressed up in Port Soller, my kids were delighted!!
I don't have pets that are bothered about fireworks but I fully sympathise with people who do. I always went to the big public firework displays as a kid. Now it seems they're less popular and more people want to do them at home. I don't get that at all - and obviously that's when it's a problem for pets when it's in a residential area.
