Halloween, Canadian Style

Halloween is a big thing out here - most of the houses are decorated with pumpkins, ghosts, cobwebs and witches. Rather than our usual practice of switching all the lights off and pretending we weren't in, we decided to embrace the whole thing, pumpkin and all.

We bough a load of sweets and spent the evening distributing them to the 30 or so well-costumed children who came round trick-or-treating. It was really good fun.