Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Trick or treating in the Gardens & Ladder
Hello,
We have never done trick or treating in the neighborhood - how is it on the Gardens & the Ladder sides? Are there any organised trick or treating for kids in the area?
thanks!
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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It's usually quite a hubub of activity. If you want to participate then either kidnap a group of children and take them around the houses with pumpkins in the window or put a pumpkin in your window and have a big bag of sweets. It's not cool to through eggs at windows BTW.
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Permalink Reply by 1vut8bf3om5m9 on
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It's not cool to through eggs at windows BTW.
When I grew up in Detroit, that bit was the night before, AKA "Devils Night". Eggs were but one facet--I saw some horrific stuff in my time. Later in the 80s, when i was editor of the paper I remember devising a contest at my university that if you could guess the number of fires in Detroit on Devils Night you get 10 free gallons of gasoline.
But I digress:
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My first experience in the Harringay Ladder last year was a sense that there was about 5% overall participation in Halloween/ But that's OK, the homes are close enough to one another.
As mentioned by other posters, the pumpkins and such in the windows with candles going are the signal to the children. I try to honour my neighbour back in Michigan who gave each kid a dollar back in 1970s by not being parsimonious with the candy. Hope you can make it by.
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Permalink Reply by Julie on
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There’s an event on at the community garden in Doncaster Gardens on the 31st 7-8pm with fire performance, hot drinks etc. We normally take the kids along with a pumpkin lantern and do trick or treating on the way there. There are lots of Halloween friendly houses in the Gardens, identifiable by the pumpkins and decorations in the windows.
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Permalink Reply by JulieB on
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It's usually great at Halloween, we trick or treat around the woodlands park road and the gardens area aiming to be at the Community Gardens for 7ish. Only calling at houses which have a pumpkin out or are decorated for Halloween.
Sadly my daughter is on her school trip to Pendarren next week so we'll miss it this year.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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You are telling children it's all right to demand what they want under threat of reprisals.
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Yes, much better if they stay inside and play on their iphones. The whole preparing a costume, dressing up, scary makeup, knocking on people's doors (who are also often dressed up themselves) is just ridiculous. Bah humbug.
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Permalink Reply by Michelle M on
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In my experience children only knock on the doors of those who flag that they are welcoming to trick or treaters by putting out decorations and pumpkins, so no tricks played. Personally, as someone who welcomes trick or treaters, I find it a lovely way to meet neighbours and feel part of the community.
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Nothing, what are you telling children on Bonfire night? What are non-christens tellng their childrwn about Easter? It's just for fun. If you are telling them anything is that getting out, dressing up with friends and meeting neighbours is a fun activity.
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Well if you want historical significance Halloween's roots are from the Celtic festival of samhain. My understanding is that dressing up in costume was to scare the spirits that were able to cross over to the living world so they didn't scare the living. There is loads of articles online about the historical significance of Halloween if you are interested. Trick or treat apparently goes back to children and poorer people dressing up and going door to door asking for food in exchange for prayers and songs. It's a tradition, I'd you don't like it you don't have to be involved. The first year we were here nobody knocked at first as I didn't put a pumpkin out. Sometimes it's okay for children just to have fun, not everything has to have a moral, and they know to only knock on the doors of those taking part as they look for the pumpkins with their parents.
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