Good solution 

My Aunty Lily used to bake apple cakes with 5p and a ring in them [ a brass curtain ring]. It was fun to see who'd get the lucky slice.

I've heard of doing things like that at Christmas. Sixpence in the xmas puds.

Yes it could be related to that tradition. Maybe its just my crazyass  family does it with apple cakes.

No sooner have we spoken of uploading halloween pics than the forum has changed + we need to upgrade membership for that. I think I will pay as its only approx £15 and I don't know what I'd do without the edit facility as my typos are terrible.

aww boo... bah humbug gagajoyjoy!

Can we still link? or at least put in the text so the other can c&p?

Hang on I'll try inserting a google impage pic to see if it works...

And a link::: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead

Both work!

I didn't know you could upload pics straight from our pc to here anyway [apart from avi pics when editing our profile]. You can still insert images available on the net by C+P'ing the url in the box...Hmmm how to post my halloween pics - possibly upload them somewhere, like photobucket.

You can also post youtube vids etc. Its on the explainy bit up there^^^^

ok, so no real change then. I have a photobucket account, generally how I link to here anyway.

Nice choice of picture.

Thanks  thought you'd like it.

My horrible neighbour is gone!!!!! Police broke into her flat yesterday but she'd done a runner Sunday I think [leaving much of her stuff behind]. They reached her on her mobile and told her that if she returned here they would arrest her for mental health sectioning. The landlord is changing the locks apparently. 

So thats that - hopefully.

I shall be celebrating a Halloween / Ding dong the Witch is Dead party!   Muhaaaaaahahaha!

Yay! I hope your next neighbour is someone good. Let's suggest a good looking chap, with a tendency to forget his shirt?

lol yep that would be good   though I'd settle for someone quiet.

Hope your back is doing better.

Quiet is good.

It is a bit, but tonight I shall be sitting in a freezing cold, possibly rainy, Scotstoun Stadium... see how it is after that.

Have you been watching the new Red Dwarf? Wondering what you think?

Oh no, sounds bad for an injured back  Hope its not too freezy tonight.

Haven't watched Red Dwarf for ages - new stuff any good?

I got my Tesco delivery, complete with Pumpkin, baking ingredients, food colouring and also a Halloween lucky bag  

It is good. Remember the last couple of seasons? Remember how bad they were? Vast improvement. No Holly though, I miss Holly.

Ooh! I forgot to look for a skull cookie cutter. Is your lucky bag good? Have you opened it yet?

Oh aye  its got a set of fangs, 2 chews, a dinosaur trading card [?] a spooky colouring book and crayons. Just my level 

Think I'll fashion bat and skull cardboard cutouts and just cut the pastry round those.

Enjoy the match and wrap up! 

We lost, but I had fun.

Ooh, sounds good.

Glad you enjoyed the match.

Theres an Autumnwatch on Halloween night yay! I remember when MHG dressed in a cravat one Halloween and looked so dashing 

Nowt much else on, though FilmFour have a few spooky films on.

Luckily I have a LoveFilm subscription so will probably watch something there to get in the mood. I like creepy scary stuff [Sixth Sense, Let The Right One In, more than gory horror]. Yourself?

Nightmare before Xmas (which includes Vincent and original recipe Frankenweenie) Corpse Bride. Bought some spooky cookie cutters, no skulls... not bad for a £1 though.

That'll be good. MHG has a tendency to look dashing. *nods*

I love Tim Burton. Beetlejuice was the first film I went to see twice.

Haven't seen Corpse Bride, will seek it out.

Well done on finding Halloween cookie cutters  what shapes are they?

Tim Burton I used to like. He has a tendency to use Johnny Depp (who has played everyone the same for over a decade) and he dared to touch Dark Shadows.

I got a ghost, a cat, a pumpkin, a haunted house, a bat and a grave stone. If you saw Fiona Cairns show on ITV on Sunday, those exact ones.

So true about Jonny Depp; a very limited actor.

Those cutters sound great.

According to the Community season 1, Halloween episode... for dia de los muertos everyone gets a tombstone cookie with their name on.

The howls of rage when I discovered He was playing MY Barnabas!

The tombstone cookie idea, I shall use that thanks! 

I was reading up on Halloween and its apparently Irish tradition to bake a coin and a ring into barmbrack. Whoever gets the ring will be married within the year, the one with the coin will be rich.

Depp playing Barnabas  Sacrilege!

I can't think of what is particularly Scottish about Halloween... I know there is stuff... *bad scot, bad*

*nods* An affront to Jonathon Frid. *shakes fist in direction of Hollywood*

Its Celtic isn't it, so very old Scottish. I never heard the word "guising" before you said it - so thats Scottish probably?

Probably, yes, guising... samhain, possibly too?

Samhain indeed 

We Scots and Irish are pagans deep down *nods*

Aye. Most of the Christmas and Easter thingies are Pagan too.

Sadness... No more Ceefax as of today.

Aww that is sad, Ceefax was great. I think of it as the forerunner of the internet  

I shall have to start up a photobucket account. They don't plague you with emails and stuff do they? I have a couple of emails for undesirables and when I don't want my actual name to appear 

I haven't had any... I'm pretty sure I signed up using an email I still use.

Thats good to know thanks.

How is your back feeling?

Back is ok, thank you for asking.

Mum's birthday today. Amazon order with her birthday present (and her xmas) came today, in time, 2 days earlier than they said. Good old Amazon. *huggles the Amazon*

Happy Birthday to your Mum Hitch  

Good old Amazon *nods* 

I see you've made your Halloween thread, I am going to take a nosey.

Ok, first impression of the thread is...

Oh! how I wish if people don't like/agree with stuff, they would keep it to one mention and let the others get on with it. lol

I just bought £5s worth of halloween sweets to make up for the £1 bag I ate. *ahem*

Thanks. Someone asked me to start one in another thread, so that was all I needed . We're having OUR Halloween party in here too hopefully?

lol at the sweets. I bought five bags of nuts for Halloween and I'm on the fourth. Will need more stocks 

PPPPPPPPPPPPPPAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

*ahem*

 Thats the spirit... muhahahahaaah.

Any ideas for music? The Harry Potter theme comes to mind [ Classic FM usually play it at Halloween so its got  associations for me ].

The Omen music... that usually does the trick too.

Monster Mash? There's a song John peel used to play about a mummy, I liked that... That's Death from the "Discworld 2: Missing Presumed?" game, "A Wizard's staff has a knob on the end", the Echo and the Bunnymen song from Lost Boys?

I will have more thinks. You'd think there would be more obvious songs for a rock fan. lol

Oh yeah Monster Mash! Thats a great sugggestion  *goes on list*

People Are Strange from the Lost Boys is  though I haven't seen the movie.

I found The Mummy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzzVgGQVdgk

there's also a Son of The Mummy, which is cute.