No Trick or Treat signs?

inish isn't that a Christmas rhyme? Think goose getting fat is nothing to do with Halloween but I suppose it is fine to hijack it.

I get your meaning but I'm only too grateful to have a card to put in the window to deter any potential nastiness which we are led to believe is likely by nasty stories in the papers.
Touch wood I've not witnessed either.

There are only two houses tucked away here. When my next door neighbours’ boy was small, his mum used to “book an appointment” so that I knew what time to expect them (mum came too). Other children have never yet come as it involves walking down a dark lane.

BlueBelle - you could have phrased this a little better ...

Only heard the goose is getting fat used as a Christmas rhyme too Inish
Have never had any truck or treat callers here, we are hidden away but DD who lives a ten min walk away has children calling for hours.She puts out lots of decs and is happy to hand out sweeties all night.The children are all polite and good natured.?

Truck? Trick

I haven't seen a single decorated house near me.

Tonight my 3 younger DGCs carved pumpkins and we bobbed for apples. Little one got hilariously wet but he did not see the funny side as much as the rest of us
We had eyeballs in green slime for pudding with worms in mud. They will dress up tomorrow and go out to visit friends houses to show off their costumes! 13yr old is going out with 6 other friends but they know to only go to homes they know & that have decorations! They will probably end up here! I might need to make more worms in mud or babies in poo! (Chocolate Brownie with jelly worms /babies baked into it)

I certainly don't remember any trick or treating when I was growing up, it just wasn't celebrated although I believe the Americans appropriated it from days of old England. We were in America at Halloween one year, it's such a big thing over there. I remember we were in shopping mall and young children were getting goodies from some of the shops, it was all pretty organised. My kids were young at the time and went quite slack jawed when they saw how much these American youngsters were amassing.

I do remember my brother and I, and various friends, making a "guy" and wheeling that around in an old pushchair and accosting strangers with "penny for the guy" thing which of course was begging. I don't think at the time I was aware of the historical significance of the 5th November, pretty horrible really particularly as we were Catholics

The children who knock at the door for Halloween around here, tend to be quite young and have adults with them. Invariably if I buy sweets, no one knocks, and if I forget, then they do. I don't think there will be too many out tomorrow, cold and wet I gather.

I haven't carved my pumpkin so I may have to roast it instead

Indeed. Displaying a pumpkin is apparently yje sign that you ARE taking part. Massive own-goal.

I have never "celebrated" hallowe'en and neither did my children. And no-one knocks round here - so it has all rather passed me by!

I did display a lit pumpkin and just had a group of very nice polite children knocking on the door; I think I screamed suitably loudly and gave them some sweets and apples.

Paddyann - this is the first I've heard of doing a turn or singing a song when trick or treating. The children here never do that. It does worry me that some children go out without an adult knocking on strangers doors. It also scares me when I've had big kids asking for money. Putting a pumpkin out was new to me last year and not having one does seem to have cut down on the numbers knocking here.

My DD takes a group of tinies around the village, all dressed up in their costumes, but when they knock on the doors of elderly folk, they give them a little treat instead of asking for one.
The people they visit enjoy meeting the little ones and having a few minutes company. Some of them joined in the walk last night.
Naturally there is no shortage of sweeties, fruit and cocoa at the end of the walk!