quokka
Station Foreman
Trying to be good however not always managing it......................................
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Post by quokka on Oct 29, 2015 2:42:58 GMT
Thought i would wish you all a Happy All Hallows Eve (I know i am a little early), Just carving our pumpkin and scaring the living daylights out of each other here. Anyway take care everyone.  Quokka x |
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Post by railtechnician on Oct 29, 2015 8:41:39 GMT
Thought i would wish you all a Happy All Hallows Eve (I know i am a little early), Just carving our pumpkin and scaring the living daylights out of each other here. Anyway take care everyone. Quokka x Another one of those 'traditions' like Christmas, Easter and Guy Fawkes / fireworks / bonfire night that I have no interest in these days. I have never had the slightest interest in 'Trick or Treat' as it really was a PITA when it came to London more as an excuse for a night of vandalism by yobs than a fun event for adult accompanied children. The last fireworks night that I attended was about 11 or 12 years ago here in Lincs but before I moved here. A properly organised event run by a nearby village club but once the bonfire was lit it wasn't long before the weather took over and wrecked the event with wind and heavy rain. The best fireworks ever were on Millennium night in London when I was on a 12 hour shift at double time plus a £400 bonus which was a pretty good earner 15 years ago. Of course I was sat in the depot on call duty watching the celebrations on TV until the 'all night' train services began to buckle through signal failures. As a kid, like all kids I used to go and collect 'pennies for the guy' to boost our home firework budget which otherwise would've been a rocket, a couple of catherine wheels, a roman candle, some jumping jacks, bangers and a couple of packets of sparklers. I think the last time I did that I was 10 years old. H&S has pretty much destroyed the sense I firework night as I remember it in my childhood roasting chesnuts in a brazier and eating hot jacket potatoes out of tin foil. We never did have or carve a pumpkin that I recall, we were rather careful with candles because there were all too many house fires in our part of London in the 1950s as a result of carelessness, the best we got was a nightlight floated in a bowl of water on the kitchen table at Christmas! I guess I'm just a boring old fart these days but I don't recall Halloween as any part of British culture, something of which so little remains in multicultural Britain where it is no longer politically correct to be the Briton that I grew up as. It's a great shame that kids today will never know what a traditional November 5th was like 65 years ago and I am not so sure that they are really that much safer these days wrapped up in cotton wool as they are. Generally we were 'playing out' from the age of 4 or 5 and so were much more streetwise than today's kids and in what was a more dangerous world than that of today in many ways. Nevertheless let me wish you a Happy Hallows Eve. |
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quokka
Station Foreman
Trying to be good however not always managing it......................................
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Post by quokka on Oct 30, 2015 2:54:10 GMT
We do not do firework night here as fireworks and bonfires are banned. Anyway not really am Aussie tradition.
Halloween has become bigger each year usually a way for shops to bring in more money. We have decorated our bar room because hubby is a big kid really..
Stay safe on Saturday anyway.
Q
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Post by railtechnician on Oct 30, 2015 13:50:42 GMT
We do not do firework night here as fireworks and bonfires are banned. Anyway not really am Aussie tradition. Halloween has become bigger each year usually a way for shops to bring in more money. We have decorated our bar room because hubby is a big kid really.. Stay safe on Saturday anyway. Q Worry not, I don't venture out much these days except for gardening, medical appointments and the weekly or fortnightly shop at Lincoln Tesco. At this time of the year I tend to begin thinking about hibernation and am quite happy locked away in my cottage without seeing or hearing a soul for weeks. Fortunately in the sticks and half a mile outside the village I am seldom bothered living at the top of a hill especially in the evening as there are no street lights here and at this time of year it can be quite gusty and wet too as it is today. These days I neither smoke nor drink and won't have a coal fire in the hearth so I'm fairly safe indoors as long as I'm not doing the washing up.......you wouldn't believe just how often I stab myself in the hand with a steak knife while reaching into the soapy bowl to clean the cutlery! |
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