Halloween giggles

 

Poignant humour

 

My dad only did this once and never again 🤣🤣🤣 a nightmare to carve, but hey Halloween is about being scared 🤣🤣🤣  The struggle in Scotland and Ireland every year 

                                              Digital automatic updates saves the hassle of having to buy a new stove, just saying 🤣🤣🤣 Are you still waking up at the old time? When you are wide awake there is no chance of getting back to sleep 😴 

Final call for Christmas humour

 

Christmas Humour

 

                                       

More Festive Lols

 

Remember it ain’t Christmas until Hans Gruber falls off Nakatomi Plaza 😂😄😄🎄🎄

Modern Christmas Funnies

 

Start the Christmas memes time

 

What too soon? 🤣🤣☃️❄️🎄🎄 Let the shenanigans begin!

This is why our Aussie cyclists are so fast

 Magpie season, swooping has begun. I can tell you where I live the Magpies take no prisoners. Even the posties are under attack. Just as well we don't have the Magpies filling up on mulberries or it would be a strafing run, lol.  

Smudge the cat says, clean your toilet

 

Good advice, because sooner or later you will be driving the porcelain truck 🤣🤣🤣 AKA on the big white phone talking to god….. omg, Jesus…never again 🤣🤣🤣 

The hangover from hell the next morning. Nothing like getting maggoted or as the British and Australians say Rat arsed 🤣🤣 

Actually I don’t celebrate the murder of the Irish people by St Pat. I prefer to call it Irish Day and celebrate being Celtic. Not the brutal murder of people that refused to convert to Christianity, a religion of peace. We come in peace, shoot to kill (metaphorically speaking) 

Ok, You can have naughty or nice for Christmas

 

I am having trouble with my choices 

Christmas humour has started early

                                                          Let the silly season begin 

 

More Christmas laughs

 

Happy Halloween peeps

 

Halloween, the time of year in which the veil between the spirit world and our world is at its thinnest.

People were fearful of the dead returning and evil spirits being loose upon the world. In reality any day of the year the veil between worlds is at it’s thinnest is between 3.00 am and 5.00 am, because the human body’s vibrational frequency matches the same as the spirit world. That is the most common time when an ill or elderly person may die. So the witching hour of midnight is a just a superstition. 

People were also very superstitious about using a mirror at night on Halloween in case they saw an evil spirit. I recall old people talking about that and being afraid at night to look into a mirror or see a reflection in the windows if the curtains were open. 

Another superstition was for single young women to sit in front of a mirror brushing their hair with a candle lit and eating an apple with hopes of catching a glimpse of their future husbands.

In Scotland bobbing or dooking for apples was always a popular Halloween party game for children; as was dangling treacle scones on a string, children had to keep their hands behind their back’s and only use their teeth to catch the treacle scone. These scones are a triangle shaped scone made with baking soda. So they are not the same as the traditional scones that we think of for Devonshire tea. 

Toffee apples were also popular at Halloween when I was a child. When children went around the streets guising they were often given nuts in their shells, an apple and sweets ( lollies as they are called in Australia) in return for singing, reciting poetry, telling jokes and entertaining the people at each house the children called at. This was always good fun to be entertained by the neighbourhood children all dressed up in their disguise’s. 

Children often carved a Tumshi or Neep lantern, actually it was usually dad that got the task because carving out a turnip is really hard work.  Both Tumshi and Neep are old Scottish words a for turnip. Pumpkin is as American tradition and far easier to carve than turnip. 

 I fondly remember the afternoon craft classes in primary school where the teachers let us make paper lanterns to take home and we would draw pictures to hang up in the classroom for Halloween too.

A few days later of course was Guy Fox night on 5th November and we would again be drawing and painting pictures to decorate the classrooms. This all lead up to getting ready for Christmas so kids are in high spirits from Halloween onwards to Christmas and the New Year parties.

In America Halloween was started by Celtic people that immigrated to the US from Scotland and Ireland and it evolved into what it is now. 

Halloween did not catch on in Australia until the 1980’s but has really taken off since the 1990’s. When I left Sydney in 1995, Halloween was still not really celebrated in Sydney, but it was very popular in Canberra. The season in Canberra is cooler than Sydney in October so perhaps that has something to do with Halloween being so popular in Canberra.

Many people are now aware of the real Celtic origins due to social media, and really it is something that and the entire world an enjoy. Celebrating the end of summer and beginning of winter. 

If you are celebrating Halloween 🎃 I hope you have fun, watch some cartoons and movies to get into the mood too. Enjoy the fun 🎃👻🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🎃