IT WILL soon be time for Halloween. When I lived in southern Ireland many years ago, October 31 (All Hallows Eve) was very popular with all the children in the village where we lived.
After school was over, the local children would dress up as ghosts or monsters and go around knocking on doors and offering “trick or treat”.
Of course I would have laid by a few bags of lollies, and when they ran out I would offer apples to the would-be scary creatures. It was a great deal of fun all round.