On Halloween Friday Five

1. With Halloween coming this next week, do you have any seasonal activities you're planning on doing for the holiday?

Halloween seems to be less of a thing in the UK than it is in the USA and less of a thing in my house than it is in the UK. My grown up daughter used to really like Halloween but my young son is not so keen so we don't d much at Halloween. We have carved a pumpkin. There are some sweets. That's probably about it.

About this time of year we often make our  Christmas pudding. It takes a few months for it to mature in the airing cupboard.

There is a fireworks display but that is closer to Bonfire Night on the 5th of November than Halloween.

I mostly refrain from the traditional British customer of Bonfire Night - ritually torturing to death an effigy of a Catholic political terrorist and muttering darkly about Fenians whilst singing the Sash My Father Wore or whatever it is we pretend we aren't still actually doing. I shall probably take part in the other seasonal British tradition of agonising about whether wearing a poppy is tantamont to fascism yet.

2. What is your favorite Halloween or dress up party costume you've had?

I do not think I have every had such a thing. My mum used to make us dressing up clothes for Christmas, of which my favourite was a 1940 Fighter Command Squadron Leader's uniform with authentic buttons.

3. Which do you like better, apple cider or pumpkin spice flavoring?

I'm not made keen on either to be honest. There is a goodly chance that apple cider has alcohol in it but to be honest alocholic apples don't interest me until they are Calvados.


4. What is your favorite scary movie and why?

I dislike scary movies. I've never really enjoyed them. So I'll opt for Seven which I found very scary, mostly because it took me months of advanced jurisprudence to find a moral response to the protagonist's view point.

5. What traditionally "scary" monster or fear do you think is the most overrated and why?

I'm not a fan of sexy vampires. Are Daleks a traditional scary monster? If so, then them.