Halloween

[smokingboot]

Last night could have been a dark and deep Halloween. The wind rolled high and it rolled low, under the half moon and over the clouds, and the leaves trembled without so much as a lantern's touch to lighten their mood; Tonight is far jauntier, all black and bright orange. Mighty is our pumpkin, Son of Spam ; Little time to carve it meant little time to mar it, unlike earlier years' attempts, Odin, Billyjoejimbob and Zoyberg. Cruel of mouth and eye, Son of Spam's grin has attracted every pre-teen gangster in the neighbourhood.He's a hit.

I have a Halloween present of my own; this entry is being written on a laptop given to me by my dear larians. It will make travelling between here and London much more interestng

Gentleman Death has given me a lot of help since last All Hallows, banishing the odd ghoul, pointing out the deep rotting smelliness of certain situations and killing them straight when it was needed. Here's hoping that should anything similar happen again, he'll despatch the necessary with kindness and grace. If I had a top hat, I'd raise it to him. It is his night after all.

Happy Halloween!

Comments

[nyarbaggytep.livejournal.com]

Happy Halloween, I have mead and all is well...
Hope you are too.

Happy Halloween

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Indeed I am, just running around like a fool! Are you still up for the art swap? I could try to do it between 5th and 10th, but I will understand if you are bored with it by now!

Re: Happy Halloween

[nyarbaggytep.livejournal.com]

I have already made yours, in a rare moment of togetherness. All I lack is your postal address. This is not in any way a pressure for you - as my usual standards of doing things occasionally stretch into years...

Re: Happy Halloween

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

OK,will email you details:-)

[sixtine.livejournal.com]

I love the way you write. I wish I had known this when I had contact with you!

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

*grins* Thank you, you say very nice things! Way back then I was a bit more shy. Times change; by now I have done so many dim things I have4 lost any capacity for embarrassment:-)

[hybridartifacts.livejournal.com]

Our Halloween pumpkin sat unloved, forgotten and dejected amidst paints and canvases... *sigh* the timing of art fairs has no mercy.
It sounds like you had a good Halloween though :)

What need have you for a pumpkin?

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

I am keeping up with your Book of Days and a fine haunting halloween tale it is!

Re: What need have you for a pumpkin?

[hybridartifacts.livejournal.com]

Ah...I bought the pumpkin to model for me for the second picture. It was already a bit manky and starting to go off when I bought it, so I dont think it was all that carvable anyway. I hadn't original thought of 'the Book of Days' as a Halloween tale-but I guess it is.

Kind of Halloween

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Sinister as opposed to whooooooo; the latter never works for me. I like everyday haunting, holiday canvas and strangeness that seems more so juxtaposed against a background that should be homely.

Re: Kind of Halloween

[hybridartifacts.livejournal.com]

I have always liked things to be unsettling and strange as oppossed to gory and shocking as well. It probably comes from growing up seeing M R James ghost stories at Christmas on TV to often...and stuff like the Signalman or Schalken the Painter. The sort of thing that leaves you wondering about the absences rather responding to the obvious.

[cat-that-walks.livejournal.com]

We had a normal Halloween for over here. Enough rockets went off to simulate a battalion strength firefight with light artillery support for about 5 hours, several stores got gutted overnight in Belfast by planted incendiary devices and there was a riot in Warrenpoint. Rather a quiet night actually.

Not exactly trick or treat...

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

*gulps* Crikey. What is it about Halloween that gets them all excited round your way?

Re: Not exactly trick or treat...

[cat-that-walks.livejournal.com]

Well you see. First we had a terrorist campaign and all you could play with was sparklers, turnip lanterns and bengal matches. Then we got 'peace' and fireworks became legal, this led to Belfast sounding like a refight of Stalingrad at Halloween and New Year with the sky looking like heavy flak over Berlin (very pretty actually). Then one firework too many got thrown into a land rover during riot season (aka marching season) and they banned them again unless you have a licence. Now they`re sold illegally to teenies by the paramilitaries and other crims. It all adds to the fun...

Re: Not exactly trick or treat...

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

*sinks head in hands* here's to a quiet bonfire night for you.

Re: Not exactly trick or treat...

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Ignore the nun, she's on the side of whoever's got the booze!

Re: Not exactly trick or treat...

[cat-that-walks.livejournal.com]

It should be. We don`t do Guy Fawkes (it`s an English thing) and I`m not sure if the battalion in Thiepval at the mo is English (if so, they`ll do fireworks on the 5th) or not (silence).

Re: Not exactly trick or treat...

[cat-that-walks.livejournal.com]

Well, they were English and had their fun last night, I saw a few high ones over the roof of the house accross the way.

Re: Not exactly trick or treat...

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Glad it was uneventful:-)