How Is Halloween Celebrated In Scotland?

[Lallans]

Well, if anyone remembers... or cares... the bats have returned this year, and are patrolling my yard. I can hear their little sonar pings. I think they are roosting in my palm trees, getting ready for Halloween.

And looking at the last post, I also bought a couple sets of shelves over the weekend, and I have been reorganizing my little studio/workshop for an upcoming project; there wasn't enough room.

Somehow I don't see Halloween and palm trees going together. What you need for a good Halloween experience is a coldish dark and windy night with the maple trees half stripped of leaves, and with the fallen leaves swirling around in a noisy and scary manner suggestive of spooks and spirits. Throw in a dime store mask that induces a greater or lesser degree of tunnel vision and that is the real Canadian item anyway.

Of course nowadays, thanks to the ill considered change to daylight saving time that the US legislature made a few years back, it's still light out an hour later and the youngest kids are spared the trauma of going around in such an atmosphere.

[EHCAlum]

Somehow I don't see Halloween and palm trees going together. What you need for a good Halloween experience is a coldish dark and windy night with the maple trees half stripped of leaves, and with the fallen leaves swirling around in a noisy and scary manner suggestive of spooks and spirits. Throw in a dime store mask that induces a greater or lesser degree of tunnel vision and that is the real Canadian item anyway.

Of course nowadays, thanks to the ill considered change to daylight saving time that the US legislature made a few years back, it's still light out an hour later and the youngest kids are spared the trauma of going around in such an atmosphere.

Even worse is Christmas and palm trees. Daylight savings in the US for those states that use it isn't until Nov 7th. It'll be dark around 7ish.

[skauwt]

Even worse is Christmas and palm trees. Daylight savings in the US for those states that use it isn't until Nov 7th. It'll be dark around 7ish.

clocks change here on the 31st october a hour darker each night
its a bloody nightmare and can be really depressing when its dark at 4.39 pm i just wish the uk government would realise that farmers don't need that extra hour in the morning when there machinery has sat nav mapping

come december the earliest the sun sets will be 3.43 pm a whopping 6hrs and 57s mins of light( and that's the central belt its worse in the highlands) roll on the december equinox is what i say
ach well a extra hour at the halloween party though

[EHCAlum]

Reminds me of when I lived in the Pacific Northwest. It would get dark at 3 PM.

[BoldHighlander]

Reminds me of when I lived in the Pacific Northwest. It would get dark at 3 PM.

It still does only that time of year hasn't arrived (yet)

[Lallans]

clocks change here on the 31st october a hour darker each night
its a bloody nightmare and can be really depressing when its dark at 4.39 pm i just wish the uk government would realise that farmers don't need that extra hour in the morning when there machinery has sat nav mapping

come december the earliest the sun sets will be 3.43 pm a whopping 6hrs and 57s mins of light( and that's the central belt its worse in the highlands) roll on the december equinox is what i say
ach well a extra hour at the halloween party though

Since Canada had no choice but to go along, I do the blame the US gov'mint for the fact that I have to leave for work in the dark for an extra 4 weeks of the year- the early morning thing does affect more than farmers.

Where I live, winter days are seriously darkening at 16:00 hrs and it's totally dark in half an hour when it's cloudy. On clear days it's better. But since I hit middle age, the darkness affects me more and more, to the point where palm trees at Christmas are starting to sound really good, hang Bing Crosby!

[Lallans]

Another reason it should be dark for Halloween is so people won't notice you discarding the healthy but excessively heavy apples they are handing out onto their lawn. It's better that they be suprised by the windfall the next day.

[Bugbear]

Thanks, cajunscot. As you say, one of those old ghost towns would make for a good Holloween.

Even worse is Christmas and palm trees. Daylight savings in the US for those states that use it isn't until Nov 7th. It'll be dark around 7ish.

I am very puzzled by this statement. What is not Christmas about palm trees?

We are one of the states that do not fool with the Daylight savings clock changing business.

[Lallans]

Thanks, cajunscot. As you say, one of those old ghost towns would make for a good Holloween.



I am very puzzled by this statement. What is not Christmas about palm trees?
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"I'm dreaming of a coconutty Christmas"? "... a White Sands Christmas?"

I can't make it work!

[Bugbear]

"I'm dreaming of a coconutty Christmas"? "... a White Sands Christmas?"

I can't make it work!

I'm flabbergasted!

And, by the way, I used to live near White Sands, N.M.