Morley Town Hall apparently had a very successful Lantern Festival on Thursday night- the organisers had to go and get more milk. (An interesting measure of success, how much coffee they served the Parents). This year, the lanterns were arranged round Terry & Judy, the two statues, followed by a disco in the main hall. (It was for children up to 11 but David decided that he was a bit too old for it).
He was still keen to go trick or treating though and we went round the local streets collecting. I instigated some ground rules- only knock at doors of houses participating (i.e. with a lantrn or decoration) or where we knew the people. A couple of houses had trick-or-treat pots on their front doorsteps and David was careful to only take one item there, although he was frequently offered a second dip at some houses (he is very polite).
One house had a do not call sign which had an ironic twist- Neighbourhood Witch.
In case you are wondering why this post is headed Rummy- we saw a door that said “Knock if you dare – R E D R U M” written in fake blood on the glass. David asked what Red Rum was and I said it was a famous race horse that was stolen and never found. I then remembered that I was mixing up Red Rum with Shergar.
When we told Karen, she twigged in an instant- it was mirror writing for “MURDER” as seen in The Shining.
(It turns out that Shergar had a rather grisly end, according to the Daily Telegraph, not for the squeamish)
Wow, he did quite well. Probably his last year, well mine stopped going out when they went to high school. But I did have some big kids here last night.
Imagine that they actually have those signs for sale! A bit ambiguous, as you say.
I think you can download them. The police did something similar last year.