Unfortunately there is not much you can do at Halloween in the UK after the age of... Like... 10 or so without looking a bit weird, out of place or having lots of people stare in disapproval (or all three). That never usually puts me off anyway, but I think perhaps I draw enough attention to myself without making an designing an elaborate Halloween costume and scaring the S*** out of everyone in our town.
I've got to be honest, I was quite disappointed in the evening of Hallowen; Halloween comes once a year and I hadn't even left the house from
In the morning Ross turned up at my doorstep and we both cycled into Felixstowe. After previously getting a tip off that Tesco's had cheap pumpkins we walked in and had a rummage in the pumpkin box. Amazingly they were selling 'large' pumpkins at 50p a hit! I'll be perfectly honest, if the pumpkins that we picked up were large, I'd hate to see the so-called 'small pumpkins'. We decided we could get two each and proceeded to hug them to the self-service checkouts.
I'll be honest, The self-service staff members were not the only people who gave us confused looks, and I don't blame them.
After paying for the Pumpkins... We had a sudden realisation that we were so exited about the price of the pumpkins that we hadn't thought about how we were going to transport them. Luckily ross had brought a bag/satchel which (to my amazement) carried his two pumpkins, and I decided I would bag my pair up and strap one to each of my handlebars... Sounds like a great idea doesn't it?
We actually ended up making quite a few detours before arriving at Ross' house including town, library and Lidl - Lidl was for lunch and we decided on a pack of 8 sausages for 95p to put in sandwiches and a bag of crisps, so we were at about £2.00 each in teams of spending.
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| The route - A = Start B = End the random squiggle is backtracking, town and Lidl right at the bottom. This is the simplified version and It is something stupid like 5 miles! |
Everyone knows how to carve pumpkins; first you cut out the top, and then you gut it. Of course we additionally made a mess to accompany it. We googled around for a while and decided to get some black and white images we liked from google as a template and cut out either the black bits or the white bits instead of using a pre-determined pattern. We found a picture of a storm trooper and set to work; first taping it to the pumpkin, pricking through the paper into the pumpkin, removing the paper and cutting through the pricks like a dot-to-dot. evidently when reading this you will be able to tell I used to do this a lot when I was smaller.
We ended up with this;
Which looked a little bit like this in a dark room;
It's probbaly easier to see what it is, if you know what it is - If you know what I mean.
We were secretly impressed with what we had created and decided to upgrade our carving abilities to the next level with some harder pictures/templates.
I created an epic spider-man logo pumpkin - I'll be perfectly honest it would be a lot more epic if it didn't have a strip of tape to aid the support of the incredibly flimsy bottom leg pieces - but I like it.
Ross, being obsessed with all things Mario decided to attempt a Mario pumpkin - I'll be perfectly honest it looks good but I'm not impressed because it was a design specially created for pumpkins....
We started to run out of time as the evening drew to a close and so I found a quick picture of a space-invader and tried to devise my own way of getting some eyes to float in the spaces of the face - whilst not realising I'd cut off one side of the tentacles.
And finally, This is all the pumpkins in their pumpkin-like glory
And that my friends was another day in the life of Sean and Ross.
The End.
(For Now)
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