The Witches are burning

Well not quite but thought I woudl write up about halloween and bonfire night.

So Friday night i took my son and his friend out trick or treating, him dressed as a Vampire and his friend dressed as a witch (not cross dressing it was a girl). We pounded the streets of our neighbour hood for about an hour and the amount of sweets they got was amazing. There are a few houses in our street that really like to go all out, two in particular had an open door invite and the kids were allowed to just wonder in and see what was going on, the outside of the houses were also decorated really well, some other houses tried to make an efffort and were very friendly when we knocked on the doors. A few of the houses did have signs saying no trick or treaters please, which I though was fair enough and we left them alone, there was also another house we went to, where they just said no thanks, we thanked them and left with no problems.

Last night I had to get some fireworks as my son must have been talking at school about guy fawkes and bonfire night. It really shocked me when I foudn out he wanted to do them tonight was all the past fireworks night he has been so scared, either just watching them in a garden, an event or just hearing them when he is in his bed. He used to come out screaming if he was in his bed and he would get in to bed with us, but this year he seems to have got used to them or they just aren't bothering him as much. My orders were to just buy a few and we would see how he was with them, but asking a man to just buy a few fireworks is not going to happen, but i didn't go OTT, I went to Sainsbury and had a lok at their selection, the little boxes had gone, there was a £20 box and then a £40 box, I was tempted to get the later but thought better of it and also funds, so I got the £20 set which contained 25 fireworks but also as it was buy one get one free but instead of getting another box I got this massive roman candle thing, it is not something that you stick in the ground as you would have to dig a massive hole, this thing looks like it should only be given for professional firework nights. I had a quick read of it and it says you have to be 25 metres away when it is going off, now my garden isn't that big but i thought what the heck anyway. So I get home and the gf just looks at me then the fireworks then back at me, so I tell here that this was the only size set left or there was a bigger selection and that the roman candle came free, she just laughed and said fine. My son was looking at me and I could tell that he wanted to do the fireworks straight awaybut we had told him i would do them after football with him, but he looked so sad as I had time I told him we can do them before I go to football, he just had a massive smile of his face with that news.
Out I go in to the garden to set up some of our fireworks and my son is looking out and sees fireworks coming from his friends house and just watches them which was great as before he would have ran crying in to the house, I set some of ours off and he is loving it, the gf then gets some sparklers out and my son was very nervous of these but he got used to them and started writing his name. I lite most of the fireworks and he seemed to enjoy all of them, I then had to leave for football. I left the big firework as the gf's mum is having some fireworks saturday and i will take it there, hopefully my son will be fine there to.