I think if I had grandchildren I might enter into the spirit of things a lot more. As it is I'm a bit bah humbug about it only seeing the silly expense of celebrating what is essentially a pagan festival. The kids don't really know what the All Hallows Eve thing is all about and obviously just see the fun they get out of it. I don't blame them, as my own kids enjoyed Trick or Treating.
I live on a road where there are only two sets of young parents with toddler age children, the rest of us are all in our 50's and 60's, so we tend to get bypassed by trick or treaters. I am actually rather grateful for that as in the past I've had my bins tipped up without anyone coming to the door.
What's hacking me off more than anything at the minute is as soon as October arrived the media were filling the papers with ghost stories, and as for those black eyed child ghosts, well what a load of old cobblers!