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I took my wife to Pendle Hill on Hallowe'en a few years ago as we both thought it would be a good atmosphere and full of the local occultists. Instead we found a fairground on a hillside and left for a pint in a charming pub in Pendleton.

If that tacky effort on Pendle Hill is a celebration of the occult you can stick it for me.

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The 'Annual Festival of Licensed Begging' as I once heard it called is actually quite an event up at Rishton Towers and in a world where children are restrained from having any sort of 'dangerous' fun I now welcome it. My pumpkin candle and skull were on display in the window and a sign directed the kids round to the back gate where we were sat out round the chinmea with plates of homecooked pie waiting to scare the little blighters in the back alley. It's all good fun and every one of them seemed to enjoy a genuine little fright to go with whatever they took from the tray of treats.

Let them have a bit of fun, they've got precious little left that they're allowed to do.

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It used to be fun years ago Ken, but like everything else these days, things change for the worse and take away the real meaning of the event, I'll bet there are lots of kids have no idea who Guy Fawkes actually was although a lot of them will be burning his effigy on Saturday

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Good idea.

Perhaps the God botherers might do the same, if we haven't got their particular holy book hanging from our knockers.

:rolleyes::D

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they learn about him in school, ty knows who he was :)

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Just keep the bucket of cold water by the door, they'll soon get the message!;)

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Er....we, the children born more than twenty years ago, before this custom was imported from America, had great fun at Halloween.

Though that fun didn't involve knocking on the doors of strangers, and begging for goods, or money, with threats of menace if they didn't comply.

:rolleyes:

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You mean they are actually teaching kids about British history, I though that they had tried to airbrush our history out of the archives

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I'm more of a traditionalist, at heart.

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;):D

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The Gunpowder Plot was led by Robert Catesby aided by his two Catholic friends Guido Fawkes and John Wright who wanted to get rid of the protestant King (religion rears it's head again!)

Guy Fawkes night has a nice ring to it - Catesby night is a bit of a damp squib...;)

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You must have much rougher kids by your duckpond.

I'm well aware of the American origins but for me it is well worth it to see infant school kids getting all dressed up and actually doing something fun with their parents instead of being told to play on their X-Box.

I'm no great lover of children which is why I've never had them but if the sight of a three year old boy dressed as a pumpkin doesn't melt your heart then you must be an even harsher man than I.

You may even see Uncle Kenny dressed as an elf this year at Father Christmas's grotto in the Market Hall...

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I remember wondering what that must have been like years ago when we visited a french mediaeval town called Villefranche-en-Conflent down near the Pyrenees - narrow streets and old buildings with open drains down the side. The stench must have been nauseating!
Bet they didn't get many Jehovah's Witnesses knocking them up on a Sunday morning:D

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I recall the last time I had a door knock from god botherers.
I said -'So you're selling religion? I don't want any'.
She said- 'we aren't selling'
I said - 'You can't give it away here'
...and closed the door

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Well actually I do remember that, because I was taught it at school, although kids today may know who Guy the fall Guy was, bet not too many can name Robert Catesby or John Wright as his co-conspirators;)

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We probably both had this drummed into us as good catholics John:rolleyes:

I will never forget our first year school trip at Paddock House - we went to see the Holy Hand of Edmund Arrowsmith....:D