Happy Halloween

It’s that time of the year again, let’s get ready for trick or treaters. 

1. Turn off the lights
2. Mute the TV
3. Hide behind the sofa
4. Don’t speak until they’ve gone

I can’t handle sugar filled children in the holidays.

But I’m on holiday

It sounded like a request but was in actual fact an order.  “Let’s all come in on Tuesday and get the classrooms sorted!”  Again picking up the pieces for someone else’s failure.  I dragged myself in having collected the car from GO at work.  Full of cold and feeling cruddy I arrived and began the Great Pellon chuck out.  As bad as I felt there is nice feeling knowing that the room is ready and all I need are a few new displays.  I am a bit perved about being asked to do work during the holidays as I don’t get paid, I will chase that up.  I’m also not going bust my arse doing paperwork which I have left at school anyway.  Rant over, sorry.  Onwards and upwards.

Scary Tea

As a back to work treat I made a Halloween tea.  We had unicorn horn soup (Chantennay carrots), pumpkin couscous, bloody fingers (hotdogs), and eyeballs (potato balls).  For desert I made Halloween Bark.

Charming

GO went to Manchester to a book signing, the guy is a bit of a non entity.  He is “famous” for playing tricks on people on Facebook and had actually written a book.  “It’s something to do!”  Was GO’s reasoning behind it, what he didn’t say was that he bought a copy of the book on Amazon (and then had to buy  second copy in the bookshop).  The best part of the whole experience for me was when the cheeky  tit sent me this message.  I actually laughed out loud!

Hauntedish Autumn

GO sold it to me as a haunted house in the middle of the Lancashire countryside.  I bought myself a Halloween skirt and some pumpkin accessories, as it got closer anxiety kicked in.  I don’t like being scared and am very jumpy as it is.  So he did a bit of digging,  “oh, mm?”  “What?” I asked.  “I think it’s aimed at kids, so probably won’t be too scary.”

It turns out, it wasn’t scary at all, the scariest part was finding a parking space.  It was a perfect autumn afternoon, chilly but sunny.  

We went on the ghoul and ghost trail, warmed ourselves by the fire and had the chance to carve a couple of pumpkins.  It was a nice afternoon, very colourful. I enjoyed watching GO carving his pumpkin, he usually tells me what to make and just watches so it made a nice change.

Tis the season to be spooky

He makes me laugh

We had had a lovely day/evening on the Blackpool front and decided to walk through the back streets to the car as it was less windy/cold.  It was peak Saturday night party time, people were spilling out of pubs and clubs.  We huddled together and plodded in trying not to antagonise anyone, when we heard a shout. “Hey nice people in front of me!”  We turned around and the tiddly guy behind us asked, “Whetenis the Tower?”  To which GO asked “Which one?”   Only him and only in Blackpool, I laughed and walked away shaking my head. Oh how I love him and his innocent ways.

Ten Years

In the blink of an eye GO and I have reached the ten year mark in our relationship.  We met ten years ago today and I thank my lucky stars everyday that this wonderful, caring fantastic guy was brought into my life.  He has made my life and my world a better place.  I know I can handle anything life throws at me with him by my side.  We’ve have had struggles some of which I’ve documented here, others I haven’t and we try to face it all with a smile, looking back together to find the humor.  Ginger One (Stuart) I love you more than words can say thank you for being you and don’t change a thing. Here’s to the future. 

Last Day

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