Harvestival, Halloween and Bonfire night/s....

St peters Sq put in a traditional harvest festival, music, kids scarecrow parade, cakes, jams, hog roasts....ye old traditional fair games....A little bit of fun to fill a Saturday afternoon with W!

The weekend before Halloween we went to one of my friends 30th Halloween party...this is turning out to be a year of 30ths...which is really quite fun! 

My dad had a bag full of all things "pirate" that i raided....and we came out looking like this:

Rrrrrrrrr!

 Anthony totally over-reacted to some eyeliner....you'd have thought i was applying it with a needle!

I was not on top of the Halloween costume thing at all this year...William said he wanted to be a Super Hero so last min we D.I Yd that for us all....well Anthony and I put in a lame attempt at least. I love d.i.y Halloween....isn't that what it was when we where kids? These days it feels like it all manufactured costumes people opt for instead...Which are tempting and cute, but i think you loose some of the fun and 'true meaning of halloween'.. haha lets get back to old school! Talking of which here are my kids wearing their underwear on the outside!

We took them trick or treating up in the infamous St Johns wood, meeting up with friends there. Id heard it was a trick or treating hot spot up there, but nothing prepared me for what I experienced that night! It was like Halloween on ACID!! Houses decked from tip to toe, with webs, skulls, spiders...All kinds of freaky characters meeting our kids at the door with bucket loads of treats...and then the hoards and hoards of kids who clearly come form all over (like we did) to Halloween it there. It was actually mental! I loved it! There is a big American community there which i think contributes to the festive spirit/s!

 So above is Ewan Mcgregors house, we never saw him, but you can just make out 'Super Will' at the door, Check out Anthony's lame costume i stuck on him against some serious fancy dressers!

And we did Fireworks at Ravenscourt park at the weekend....

                   Follwed by a Bonfire night themed promo night at Jamie Olivers restaurant.

Me & Jamie could have become the best friends we've always been destined to be this night, but my kids were having non of it! as usual..So there goes holidaying it up with our best buddies The Olivers;)

And now its time for the pumpkins to go and Christmas to roll on in!!