Remember last week I said I was going to put together a display of my Halloween stuff? Well I didn't forget!I bought the pumpkins - all three of them, and a few days later I noticed that one was covered with this awful white stuff. It was obviously struck down with mould,( maybe due to the heat?) so I had to throw it out. Shame. I have two scarecrows that I alternate for the display from year to year, but one of them was also looking a little worse for wear. But in spite of ALL those setbacks - here is that display. I bought a plastic jack o' lantern in the UK last year and am looking forward to lighting it up on the BIG night itself! No one else around me seems to share my passion for Halloween, or putting up displays, just for the fun and colour if nothing else.
I also bought a pumpkin carving tool set in the UK, keen as they are on celebrating that day the shops stock all the right tools of the trade as it were. I usually buy a pumpkin here to carve, but looking at the pumpkins in the UK last year, I was amazed to find found that they differ HUGELY to the ones we have here. The ones here have skins so hard, that DH struggles to put a hole in in order to start carving out shapes, like the eyes and mouth. The ouside skin is also not a smooth surface,but an undulating hard peel. The pumpkins there are orange and the outside skin is very thin, making it a cinch to carve. I think that this is also the variety they use in the USA.
No wonder Halloween never caught on here. Too much like hard work!