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I love how the Americans start celebrating Halloween way back in September it seems! The picture sites I visit certainly start sharing pumpkin pictures back then but for the UK we celebrate over one weekend if you're lucky. 

It is today but most trick or treating was done on Saturday! I guess its about children but the films shown on TV (Halloween anyone?!?) seem hackneyed and hollow . . . . . . hey ho! 

It REALLY isn't an American invention or tradition we might even establish that it is European and certainly British church dates mark the occasion (All Hallows Eve) but the notion of Trick or Treating seems especially American and it has passed to us now in recent years but the economic build up to the day for over a month is another ludicrous commercial con equal only to Christmas here. 

For years we would have celebrated Guy Fawkes Day on the 5th November but the wind has gone out of the sails now there too as Halloween takes over . . . . bonfires and Firework Night as my family called it with spuds baking in the open garden fire and treacle toffee and Parkin sliced cake (maybe a Northern thing here) was part of our family's tradition that I looked forward to always remembering to bring the rabbit in from the madness and explosions, looking out for Hedgehogs and mindful of those who loud bangs and huge in some cases were less of a 'treat'!