Do People In The Uk...

[1ozzy]

...Embrace Halloween as much as the Americans?

Here, Down Under, it is slowly becoming accepted.

Not many "trick or treaters" as of yet but as each year goes bye it is slowly creeping into the Aussie way of life.

[EdmundD]

I don't remember it as a child, just seems to be something that has crept in slowly. It also seems to be a cinema genre. We don't answer the doorbell on Halloween. As O_G said Bonfire Night was what we looked forward to.

[Sipowicz]

It was duck apple for us.

[zebo]

My OH was known in the road for entering into the spirit of the evening, he would dress up and makes suitable noises when he opened the door. Kids from other roads got wise and came to just our house. One year he did his stuff, one of the big kids was carrying a two year old who had hysterics. The parent came round to complain and it was only the intervention of our neighbours who all loved it that a nasty situation was avoided.

[mikey4444]

I was born in 1953, and I can't recall Halloween being celebrated at all, at least not in the South West where I grew up. If we had heard of it, it was as a quaint American custom, that we saw on the Telly.

If you look back, I think you will find that our wholehearted acceptance of this event coincides nicely with the Walmart takeover of ASDA ! Its basically a commercial opportunity to make vast sums of money, selling Chinese-made crap to credulous shoppers.

Bring back Firework Night !

[EDDIE51]

Yes Firework night was wonderful. I used to buy individual fireworks for weeks before and keep them under my bed! My friends did the same, we would visit each others bedrooms to look at what fireworks we had got and swap them.

[Jackdaw33]

We don't have Firework Night here, we have Firework Week!

[DTCwordfan]

I go and offer the residents next door, inc my old man, a bowl of pumpkin soup and not one has come back and said 'Please, more.'

I wonder why? The restaurant is a church graveyard though, five miles from anywhere meaningful.

[jennyjoan]

About two years ago some kids came to the door - I had bought a big bag of crisps you know the cheap ones. One little girl (had her mother behind her) - oh oh I hate them. I did laugh. They were rotten full of salt. I threw the lot out.

I don't open the door now as both Harvey and Maxie bark so much at the door being knocked.