It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Off Topic Chat

Hope everyone enjoyed the World Cup final, great game very cruel on New Zealand but congrats to South Africa

Almost all my clocks are automatic so the fun of manually putting them back an hour is obsoulete. Dark evenings are cosy even a little eerie

Typical. Finally get some time off work after multiple 60 and 70 hour weeks and have come down with a right dose. Sinuses and throat in bits and sweating buckets... meant to be driving to kerry for a few days on Tuesday so hope it eases a bit before then.

Get well soon!

There making some money off the 'irish shite'

Wouldn't risk it tbh. The ronan keating version gave me PTSD a few years back so not worth it.

I go to The Range on the October Bank Holiday every year, kinda kick starts Christmas for me. I think they have most of their stock out now, even a few retro foil decorations.

Just seen my first Christmas advert, Lindt.

It's Halloween!

Heavy rain forecast, so it might be a wash out.

Just text my wife to get some treats for trick or treats in case of the million to one chance of someone knocking at our door.

Don't lie, you just want treats for yourself 😂

The weather is already pretty awful down here so I'd imagine we won't have as many callers as we normally would. Very disappointing for the kids.

Thankfully it looks like they got it wrong this time. Still dry and no wind

😀

My two went out with their friends much earlier this year. They were back by 6.45.

I was on duty at the door at home as usual and although it was quite busy until 6.30, it got very quiet after that. Think we only had two groups call between 6.50 and 7.15. It was tipping down by then (west Dublin) so although I can still hear loads of fireworks in the neighbourhood, this must be the earliest ever that the trick or treating has finished up.

No older kids (10+) this year, all very odd. They must have stayed at home once the rain started. Plenty of mini bars to keep us going with our cuppas until the New Year anyway 😱

Thankfully the Covid "survival bags" seem to be a thing of the past. For the last two years people were giving out pre-made bags of junk whereas this year it's back to the usual two or three items given out at each house. Means the kids had quite a good bit less than 2021 and 2022

Edit: just seen your post, Pigtail. Hadn't seen it before I posted mine. I wasn't implying you hand out junk 🫣

These hours keep dropping!

My four year old would fit in well here...Going to bed tonight, after a great evening trick or treating, he asked "Will it be Christmas in the morning?"...the innocence 🥰

Happy November!

Quite a few came by before we went out ourselves. Kilcock and Maynooth have been expanding so more kids every year is my experience. Had lots of things on for them. Their favorite this year was the boxes where you blindliy have to reach in and get your own sweets out. And the boxes all feel like they have spider webs and weird things in them. And one box was home made slime which got the fun EUW and ICK reactions. Lots of fun.

Went out in our XMen routine - me the the four kids. Toddler Wolverine was a hit with everyone. My oldest daughter as Storm and me as professor X worked out well too. With only a single very early 20s worke warrior who decided to go off on one about black face and representing as physically handicaped when not actually physically handicapped. But as they say "there is always one".

Since we do not do Santa in our house, halloween is a good creative outlet so we do get into it in a big way.