Oooooooo spooky

I managed to find a whole pumpkin in one of the local supermarkets. The person that weighs the produce and puts a sticker on it for the till was most perturbed that we wanted the whole thing and not a slice!

Clearly they do not get many people coming in for members of the squash family to carve into spooky effigies!

Mr Pickle did not want to help me with the pumpkin scraping, he was freaked out by the seeds inside and ran away shouting 'Nooooo' at the top of his voice after he had touched the slimy innards.

I hollowed out the pumpkin and then together we made our spooky ghoul. As you can see in the pictures, the pumpkin may have been small but was perfectly formed!

There was one snag. No candle! I tried to burn all sorts of things inside the pumpkin, eventually I got a sizeable flame from a combination of screwed up paper, tissue and cooking oil. Any children reading this should only attempt such pyromanic activities with a responsible adult present.

I have also made a perfectly formed pumpkin pie with ingredients scrabbled together from a number of supermarkets.

The shipping boxes still have not arrived and Oscar's halloween outfit is inside one of them. Once they arrive I am sure we will have a small skeleton running around shouting boo randomly. Maybe for Christmas! That's something to look forward to on the blog, a Christmas skeleton.