It being Halloween (my son LOVES Halloween!) I bought a big pumpkin and having scooped out as much flesh as I could (pumpkin pie, mmm) I carved the most diabolical face I could into it. My lad reckoned it was the best I'd ever done.
So when the light started to fade, I set it on the big brick gatepost at the entrance to my drive, with three tea lights inside it, and though I say so myself it looked pretty darn good. Then I set off with my boy (aka the Grim Reaper) to go trick or treating. I suppose we were away about an hour...
When we came back, I realised I couldn't see the pumpkin glowing (it had got dark by this time) and thought, 'Oh drat, the tea lights have gone out, I'll have to re-light them'. But when we got nearer, I realised the reason I couldn't see the pumpkin was because it had gone. Vanished. Totally. I looked around in case it had just fallen off, but no sign of it.
Someone obviously had taken it, but why? Because they didn't approve of Halloween and trick or treating? Because they hadn't the time / patience / imagination to carve their own? Or just to be a dick so they could take it and smash it somewhere?
I know it's only a pumpkin, but I took time and trouble carving it.. I don't know, it's just really annoying
So when the light started to fade, I set it on the big brick gatepost at the entrance to my drive, with three tea lights inside it, and though I say so myself it looked pretty darn good. Then I set off with my boy (aka the Grim Reaper) to go trick or treating. I suppose we were away about an hour...
When we came back, I realised I couldn't see the pumpkin glowing (it had got dark by this time) and thought, 'Oh drat, the tea lights have gone out, I'll have to re-light them'. But when we got nearer, I realised the reason I couldn't see the pumpkin was because it had gone. Vanished. Totally. I looked around in case it had just fallen off, but no sign of it.
Someone obviously had taken it, but why? Because they didn't approve of Halloween and trick or treating? Because they hadn't the time / patience / imagination to carve their own? Or just to be a dick so they could take it and smash it somewhere?
I know it's only a pumpkin, but I took time and trouble carving it.. I don't know, it's just really annoying
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