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greetings


and so halloween, look you see. quite a curious bone of contention this is here in the UK, for frankly baffling reasons.

there are one or two - and i attribute this to the short term nostalgia and limited reminiscing so popular in modern society - who claim that halloween is just "an American thing", and that, under the terms of the English way of doing things, this was not celebrated or marked in the UK until the last few years.

utter, utter nonsense. i was very much here, in the 70s and 80s, growing up. we absolutely went and did halloween, all that "trick or treat" stuff. i get that some in our society are anti-American (for whatever reason) and thus seek to blame anything they do not particularly care for on some American influence, but they are off the mark with this. true, yes, it probably was something of an American thing whenever it started being marked or "done" here, but that was 40 odd years ago. hardly a "new craze to follow" on these shores, then.

speaking of America (at least i was), behold the above, for the text around it is the excuse to show it off here on my blog. a quite new and i have a feeling good friend from America took the time and trouble to post this to me, which was most kind.

one (possibly) interesting aspect of this is that, so far as i am aware, we here in England (possibly the wider UK) do not have a range of halloween celebratory cards to send or receive. this is rather unusual, to say the very least, for if you to any relevant or suitable store for such things you would find a card available to buy for pretty much any other instance.

no, not halloween as such (per se), just something i noted (observed) (and documented, obviously) on my travels. who is it that can tell me who i am is a topic i have wrestled with for many years now, several i suppose. by chance i came across some wall art (graffiti) which apparently intended to tell me who or what i am. alas, i cannot work out the last part, so i still do not know. oh. bother.

for some reason there are one or two of you who like seeing images not in the greater glory and good of Commodore 64 mode. i, for one, cannot understand this. but, since you have taken the time to read whatever i put up here, well, go on then.

i am not sure, at all, if the friend who kindly sent this card to me is aware of this blog, or as a consequence seen this. yes, no, maybe would be my most clear answer. well, if the first of those answers, thank you once again!

no, not a lot else i can add here.



be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!