australian halloween

g'day

following on from a post a year or so ago (here, look you see) it's time to once again dismiss this idea that halloween is either an "American" thing or "wasn't celebrated in the rest of the world" until fairly recently. well, this one doesn't go quite so far back as the last one, being as it was the 70s. still, the rather early 80s is a lot longer ago than i would wish it to be. 

so, recently i have been (via a newly procured flat bed scanner) scanning a rather large amount of photographs. yes, photographs "from the past", rather than all them images of the future i have. many brought back memories whereas some were ones i could not recall much of anything about. like, for instance, this one. 

yes, that is moi, in the Colorado shirt and suspiciously Robert Plant style bulging jeans, wearing a Fidel Castro mask as some sort of celebration of Halloween. the carved pumpkins and ostensible trick or treat bags give that one away. indeed, as the title suggests, this was Australia, i think 1982, if not 1981, making me, what, 8 or 9 or thereabouts. oh the rumours spread that i was ageing fast. 

why a Fidel Castro mask? absolutely no idea. i can remember it was one Dad got on his travels and for some reason i took quite the shine to it. unlikely i would have any idea at all who or what a Castro was at that time. 

pretty sure that this exhausts all images i have of me celebrating (or what have you) Halloween, but all the same quite certain that gets rid of it being a "recent American thing". oh, make no mistake, our friends across the Atlantic do go big for it, but around the world it has more or less always been marked if not celebrated for many decades. 

be fair dinkum to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!