> I am tired of the "holiday" industry. A month away from Halloween and people had decorations out on their porches and lawns and roofs and garages and doghouses and telephone poles. Some people even have Halloween lights strung on their house. Isn't the point of Halloween to have one night to scare people?

Every Halloween our mum would send us out dressed as Smurfs. We couldn't afford any blue make-up though, so she would send us outside in our shorts and wait for hypothermia to set in.

Mind you, trick-or-treating didn't exist in Scotland as such when I were a lad - more a sort of "gie's sweets or we'll pan in yer windaes" approach.

Bourne