Janice mentioned Hallowe'en. It's not something that was ever part of the
calendar in the UK until fairly recently, when the shops discovers (after
ET) that they could make money by selling stuff for it. We don't generally
get kids 'trick or treating', but the few that do can be quite
We accidently found a good way of getting rid of trick or treaters
last year :o) We'd forgotten all about it, so had nothing in the
house that we were willing to give out apart from rich tea biscuits
and the little packets of Sunmaid raisins. We only had one group
come to the door, we think
I've seen my first Christmas stuff for sale in my local supermarket. Add
to
Grandfather's Day (another invention to part children from their money)
on
25th September. So there must be a 'Grandmother's Day' some time as well,
seeing as there's Father's Day to go with Mother's Day. Looking
At 02:45 PM 9/20/2005, you wrote:
Janice mentioned Hallowe'en. It's not something that was ever part of the
calendar in the UK until fairly recently, when the shops discovers (after
ET) that they could make money by selling stuff for it.
Yes, in the USA it's big business. We see Halloween
That's interesting Jean. I had assumed Halloween was celebrated in the UK
because of a an ex-neighbour of mine. Jane would now be in her mid-40's, and is
an English-born Aussie citizen, who moved away from my street a couple of
years ago. Anyhow, Jane always arranged a get-together on
