It's almost Halloween, and although I haven't the foggiest idea of what it means/why it came about and what pumpkins have got to do with it... I bowed to popular pressure and bought a pumpkin.
We live in England and we don't go around trick or treating, don't get dressed up in scary costumes and our house it's not decorated with fake cobwebs - those are natural all-year round things!
Anyway, after the 'carving/butchering/annihilating' of the pumpkin the boys wanted to make ginger bread men. Now, I've got a problem with ginger bread men. I think the story is cruel and violent. I hate the taste of ginger. And their fixed smile is totally creepy.
Things started out ok, I didn't put any ginger in but the boys won't know. At this stage they even seemed kind of cute...
but look closer... a bit creepy, right?
the glisten... they're almost alive... look even closer...
THAT is NOT a smile. It's some sort of 'I'm coming to get you' grin...
Am I right or am I right?
In the went into the oven and that is when things went horribly wrong. I don't know if it was the recipe (the lack of ginger?), the temperature? but this is what happened next. Please don't look if you're easily scared, under medication for your heart etc. etc.
Ready? Go...
They're aliens! Mutants!
No 2 took one look and said... mummy, they don't really look like ginger bread men.
No kidding! Do you think they'll come alive tonight and take over the world?




























