Well Halloween just isn't quite the big deal in the UK as in the US. The little kids do put on fancy dress (costumes), and kinda trick or treat. But commercially, it's hardly noticeable as a holiday amongst all of the Christmas stuff already out in the surpermarkets and shops! I'm not even such what people would hand out for candy on Halloween, I've never seen bags of mini-candy bars in the supermarkets. So not really sure what the kids get!
I asked my English girlfriends, if they ever trick or treated when they were little, and none of them had. It's only a recent thing, but they do remember carving turnips! Folklore has it that some Irish guy did something bad, and was stuck in-between heaven and hell, and so had to roam the earth at night. So he carved a face in a turnip and stole a light of fire from the devil, and used it as a "lantern" to light his way. So that is where we ended up getting the "jack o' lanterne" carving idea from (they say).
Brian and I weren't much in a large celebratory mood, but did want to enjoy the nice autumn weather and hang out with our friend Jo for the day. So we took a short drive to Millets Farm, where we figured it might be the closest thing to a UK pumpkin patch. It was a far stretch, but there were a few bales of hay where they were selling some pumpkins. So there we go! The largest pumpkin I've seen in this country is the one behind Brian on his right.
They also had a corn maze with scary monster actors, which the older kids could go to when it got dark.
We settled for afternoon tea looking over the farm land and lake!
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