This morning we debated Halloween costumes. Davies is his usual enthusiastic self and has more or less assembled everything he needs and just wanted a bit of help. He’s being a vampire wearing his own black clothes, a cloak made from an old dress, fangs from Jinty’s halloween sweet selection and a painted face. Scarlett said she wanted to be a vampire but didn’t actually want to wear anything other than the single pair of trousers she will wear (light blue) and doesn’t have a black top and refuses to wear any of the ones we offered to lend her. Argh. Explained that in years to come she might look back at the photos of this year and wonder why she looked like she had wandered in to the party by mistake rather than planning to be there, tried – and probably failed to not project my own desire to be a good mother providing or assisting with a decent costume and then she agreed to wear her tiger sleepsuit (I refuse to use the ‘O’ word) which is too small with the feet cut off she she can actually bend her legs to walk in it, painted tiger face and her vampire fangs as tiger teeth. Phew.
I made bread and soup for lunch – cooked the soup on the top of the log burner :), looked at some pumpkin carving ideas with the kids on the internet and then I headed down to meet Casey and go to visit Debs for tea and biscuits. We stayed for a couple of hours, had a tour of the house and a really good chat. I like her, she has a good attitude to life in general and I think she will be a good addition to the island.
I popped to the shop for a few bits and then came home, just about getting up the hill without a torch (I did have one but both hands were full and it was just about light enough to see without). My knee injury from 2 weeks ago is still playing me up so I am being super cautious about not falling over again if I can possibly help it! We had an earlyish dinner and watched Coraline in a Halloweeny tribute, followed by a couple of episodes of Will & Grace before kids bedtime.
I spent some time gazing out the window trying to decide if I could see the northern lights or not when there were a couple of pictures from local (as in mainland this area not local as in Rum) folk on facebook but I think they are more of the very slow shutter pictures rather than visible with the naked eye ones.