DID you know that you can save a fortune on Halloween decorations if you refuse to dust the cobwebs from your house all year round?

As a kid, Halloween was one of my favourite holidays because it meant a week off school and dressing up as the wee witch that I truly was for all to see.

Granted, in the nineties, the average witch’s costume consisted of a black bin-bag with holes cut in it for the arms and head (if you were lucky) and a black mole drawn on your nose with your ma’s best eyeliner.

I say “If you were lucky” about the holes in the bin bag rather than the bag itself, as I’m sure there were times my Ma was tempted to just put it over my head and leave it at that, due to my demands for a lantern that would see her poor hands in shreds as she hollowed out a big turnip and put a tea light inside it, only for me to get fed up carrying it after 10 minutes.

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