when I were a lad in the UK (shut up Hoodie Steve Atkins!) we never celebrated halloween at all. So it was some huge culture shock to be faced with trick or treating kids in Montreal in October 1964. and to hear about sad-istic gentlemen handing out apples with carefully embedded razor blades .Now I know all about it. but have to admit being suprised to read an article entitled
"The trick is to get us to part with £120m"
at:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...C-new_31102006
on its growing observance in the UK
It begins:-
"In the old days Halloween was a rather forgettable entrée to Bonfire Night
Understated, a bit rubbish and very British"
and goes on to contain many pearls of wisdom like
"involving yet more stress for weary parents already eyeing the looming annual economic meltdown still known by some as Christmas.
Tonight, the streets of Britain will be alive with groups of children dressed in shiny, black, Chinese-made plastic cloaks, their faces obscured by green, Chinese-manufactured make-up, or rubbery, Chinese-sourced monster masks'
John
