Halloween

Welcome to another new post - it's fair to say that this is quite a political post in parts - if you don't like politics or can't be arsed then just skate past those bits. I find politics really easy to ignore so it's easy if you try - just close your eyes and say "they're all bloody liars" three times and everything will be ok.

I've also nicked some photos to make it more entertaining - no attempt to claim copyright on any of these photos is being made, although it's obvious which ones are mine and which ones I have nicked.

Halloween.


Ah, it's that time of year again where you have weeks of notice that you are invited to a Halloween party and somewhere in your head you make a mental note that says, this is the year we are going to be prepared and get a costume so good it eclipses any other......and then as usual you leave it the last minute and the whole thing just becomes a bit of a chore.

Add to the mix the fact that you are invited to more than one party and you feel that you should really put in an appearance at both and this adds to the feeling that perhaps you just shouldn't bother at all, buy a bottle of wine, lock the door and hide from the world.

However, that would be the easy/sensible option - we decided just to go for the two parties. Party 1 was our friend Lorna's (not Lorna who is NZ) who was having just a general Halloween party with no specific theme. (best costume I saw there was Monkey from the 80's tv show although the costume wearer had seriously misjudged the age demographic of people at the party and people (apart from me) just looked at him strangely.

Monkey.......Magic.

Party 2 which was the main party we were to attend as it was with folk from Katie's work and this was the one we had been invited to first did have a theme.....and it was fairytale and fantasy. So, yep, lots of sexy fairies and alice in wonderlands etc etc. I was desperately trying to think of a funny, perhaps political statement to make and the choices were





a) the moon landings

NASA footage from the moon landings.

b) weapons of mass destruction

c) Mary and Joseph

First seen outside a church in New Zealand, caused a bit of a fuss. I don't know why?

The only one of these Katie liked was Mary and Joseph, although we did do a quick consumer survey and we were put off by the response about religious jokes in unknown company in Glasgow. Imagine my annoyance when some bloke turned up as Jesus at the party. He was sitting on his own though getting some aggressive looks (not from me)

Jesus outside the High Court after his acquittal for faking the water/wine incident.

So, what did we go as?
Well here we are at the first party........any ideas?

Thought not. Noone else really knew either.

Here we are at the second party.........any better?

Full marks if you guessed Goldilocks and the three bears. Also score full marks if you correctly identified that the three bears in the original story were Mummy, Daddy and Baby and that we have completely ignored this.

We decided instead to go as "bling" bears. Almost akin to the bear off of Kanye West's album covers.
                     

Kanye West likes fishsticks by the way. 

Extra points if you were able to tell (impossible from these photos) that these all in one suits from Primark are actually Monkey suits not bear suits.

Someone at the party spotted the similarity between our costumes and 90's band, The Bloodhound Gang (who did the song, "you and me baby we ain't nothing but mammals" - entitled "The Bad Touch".

So here we are in a cupboard/office with the Bloodhound Gang,

So, that was Halloween for another year - we'll be so prepared for next year it'll be so unreal, honest........................

Here's my favourite costume from a very good friend of mine (who was at a third party we had been invited to).............top marks if you can name the character and the movie.