🎵This is Halloween! This Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!🎵 What are you doing today? It’s still early there so I imagine you’re getting to it right about now!
I was Tintin (again, I know, I got a nice pair of historical-reproduction knickerbockers for my birthday so I couldn’t resist). Here’s a picture — I wish I had someone else to take better photos, lol.
So all these years later, I continue to plague the family with Tintin. Almost nobody outside was wearing costumes until very late, for adult Halloween parties, perhaps? But I hear there’s a small level of trick or treating happening. I found a wrapped Twix on the ground walking to my dorm: the Halloween spirits showing their love. How long did you manage to stretch trick or treating? I miss it desperately.
Today I went to a little get-together a friend hosted. We had something British people call a ‘chip-butty’: French fry sandwiches, with optional butter and ketchup. It reminded me of making impromptu microwave cheese sandwiches at midnight.
The last time we went trick or treating together, the only part I remember is what Mom (Mel) was wearing, a Hawaiian shirt. I don’t remember what either of us wore. It is times like these I wish I kept a diary longer than I did. England is very suitable for Halloween (old buildings, old bricks, bleak weather), but there is nothing so pleasant as the colorful Halloweens back home. We had trick or treating down to a science. I miss it a lot.
I hope your night is wonderfully scary. Being chronically melancholic, I did not get as festive as I ought to. A good time to remember that the colorfully macabre Halloween spirit can last as long as you please.
With love,
Alice