Merry Meet Mel. I must say this was a wonderful month full of relaxed comfortable chats and presentations where you were sharing your food and life experiences. I really enjoyed the entire month, and I look forward to whenever you put up a future video. Enjoyed this video especially because of hearing how you are celebrating the time of year. Very well done. Blessed be Mel....hugs across the pond.
Thanks again for Vlogtober, enjoyed it as always!! Watching you cook to a Halloween soundtrack was magical! Thank you too for sharing your practices. I want to be your neighbor, learn everything from you, and bake bread. Samhain has already passed for you, but I hope it was everything you planned and wanted it to be!
Enjoyed your vlogtober. In my childhood living in Scotland we celebrated Halloween by dressing up in home made costume & going round neighbours & doing a turn in exchange for apples & monkey nuts. No trick or treating. That was in the 50’s. We didn’t really celebrate guy fox as it’s more an English tradition. Thanks for all your videos 🏴
Loved this witchy video , I am a forest witch , have tarot too it’s my job , I worked on tv for years and have many clients. Nice to hear your stories x 👻 x
I have really enjoyed your Vlogtober once again. Gets me into the spirit of this time of year. Today is an odd day. Hardly any wind and muted sunlight. Feels like the world is holding its breath. I think there certainly is a change in the way the year feels at this time and I love your idea of how to feel closer to your loved ones. I am helping out at a local community Halloween party tonight and then looking forward to cosying up with my family and maybe enjoying a good film or two. I remember 'penny for the guy'. We used to have a huge bonfire and firework display when I lived down south. Sadly there doesn't seem to be any near our village here. I find it a bit hard as I lost my Dad on the 5th so it is more a day for thinking of him. We do get sparklers for the girls to enjoy and make treacle toffee. Being right next to a farm and having our own animals we don't have fireworks. I hope that you have a great Halloween. Thanks once again Mel for your busy work making this a fun thing to watch each day in vlogtober x
You're very welcome :) The weather is still feeling unseasonal here, mild and fairly still and I'm not complaining about it, but it does feel a bit odd xx
I’m just catching up on vlogtobers now. I enjoyed yours so much again this year. As a kid in America we usually say the rhyme “trick or treat smell my feet give me something good to eat”. But never to people to get the candies (or sweets 😉) . Only sort of joking around with other kids.
Yes that's the rhyme!! I'm so glad you enjoyed, i'm still working my way through everyone elses videos, it's a great way to extend the autumn season before the holidays :)
I will be making some cheese scones later along with a Guinnes cake. We didn't do trick or treating (my mother saw it as begging) but we did apple bobbing and Mam would make toffee and yes we scraped out the swede. I didn't encourage my kids to trick or treat either we usuall took them to the cinema instead to avoid all the high jinks. We had small garden fireworks and usually made a Guy for the local bonfire.
I actually rather like the smell of burning turnip! I never appreciated at the time the effort my mum was making, carving a lantern from one of those. You're a bit younger than me I think, and there was no trick or treating when I was little. I *always* did celebrate Hallowe'en though - even with a very C of E mother - I think perhaps because my Dad was a Scot. I'd been given Oor Wullie and The Broons books as gifts, and seen their Hallowe'en fun and I wanted in! I had more than one party over the years, slightly to the bemusement of my friend group, because honestly it didn't seem to be made much of in Derbyshire at the time. I have always loved it though. I also get very irritated when people grouch that trick or treat is a 'US import', because it is obvious that it comes from Scottish and Irish guising traditions - where historically you *did* go round asking for money - taken to the US by the immigrants in centuries past and has been modified and come back to us in what I consider to be a very entertaining form. I gather one of the 'usual suspects' was moaning this week (in the Torygraph I believe) that Hallowe'en had eclipsed Bonfire Night, but the latter has become quite difficult to celebrate at home in recent decades. My childhood involved both fireworks and bonfires *in the back garden* in a manner that people (including me!) just don't want to risk, or don't have the space for nowadays. But having to make the effort to attend an organised event - if there even is one locally - makes it more of an undertaking. Fireworks themselves are now seen as problematic due to the effects on wildlife and pets, (let alone kids!) and the ordinary public are really not encouraged to buy them. Plus I don't think people are quite so sanguine now about celebrating the bloody end of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, even if they were traitors.
I love the smell too, it's so nostalgic :) Used to love the broons books too, I was handed down some from when mum and her siblings were kids. I don't think John really did halloween either as he is from Derbyshire too. Fireworks were not really done in gardens when I was little maybe it was because the village did it's own show and it was a small village i'm not sure, it was more common when my boys were little, but even then usually there would be a bigger gathering at one of the parents houses and everyone would bring one firework each :)
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Merry Meet Mel. I must say this was a wonderful month full of relaxed comfortable chats and presentations where you were sharing your food and life experiences. I really enjoyed the entire month, and I look forward to whenever you put up a future video. Enjoyed this video especially because of hearing how you are celebrating the time of year. Very well done. Blessed be Mel....hugs across the pond.
Thank you :) I hope you had a blessed Samhain too!
Thanks again for Vlogtober, enjoyed it as always!! Watching you cook to a Halloween soundtrack was magical! Thank you too for sharing your practices. I want to be your neighbor, learn everything from you, and bake bread. Samhain has already passed for you, but I hope it was everything you planned and wanted it to be!
You are so welcome! It would be nice to have more like minded neighbors I must admit :)
Really enjoyed your Vlogtober as I always do, thanks for sharing October with us, looking forward to December now ❤
Thanks so much! 😊
Like everyone, I really enjoyed the videos this month. Blessed Samhain to you. 🎃🍂🍁
Same to you! :)
Blessed Samhain. I’ve really enjoyed watching your Vlogtober, thank you for sharing with us 😃 x
Thanks so much 😊
Really interesting video, thanks Mel. I’ve enjoyed this year’s vlogtober very much.
Thank you :)
Enjoyed your vlogtober. In my childhood living in Scotland we celebrated Halloween by dressing up in home made costume & going round neighbours & doing a turn in exchange for apples & monkey nuts. No trick or treating. That was in the 50’s. We didn’t really celebrate guy fox as it’s more an English tradition. Thanks for all your videos 🏴
you're very welcome :)
Loved this witchy video , I am a forest witch , have tarot too it’s my job , I worked on tv for years and have many clients. Nice to hear your stories x 👻 x
you're a re most welcome :)
I have really enjoyed your Vlogtober once again. Gets me into the spirit of this time of year. Today is an odd day. Hardly any wind and muted sunlight. Feels like the world is holding its breath. I think there certainly is a change in the way the year feels at this time and I love your idea of how to feel closer to your loved ones. I am helping out at a local community Halloween party tonight and then looking forward to cosying up with my family and maybe enjoying a good film or two. I remember 'penny for the guy'. We used to have a huge bonfire and firework display when I lived down south. Sadly there doesn't seem to be any near our village here. I find it a bit hard as I lost my Dad on the 5th so it is more a day for thinking of him. We do get sparklers for the girls to enjoy and make treacle toffee. Being right next to a farm and having our own animals we don't have fireworks. I hope that you have a great Halloween. Thanks once again Mel for your busy work making this a fun thing to watch each day in vlogtober x
You're very welcome :) The weather is still feeling unseasonal here, mild and fairly still and I'm not complaining about it, but it does feel a bit odd xx
Thanks for your Vlogtober, Mel! Blessed Samhain to you xx
Same to you!
I’m just catching up on vlogtobers now. I enjoyed yours so much again this year. As a kid in America we usually say the rhyme “trick or treat smell my feet give me something good to eat”. But never to people to get the candies (or sweets 😉) . Only sort of joking around with other kids.
Yes that's the rhyme!! I'm so glad you enjoyed, i'm still working my way through everyone elses videos, it's a great way to extend the autumn season before the holidays :)
Very interesting, thank you.
You are welcome :)
Its been great, so sorry its over...
thank you :)
I will be making some cheese scones later along with a Guinnes cake. We didn't do trick or treating (my mother saw it as begging) but we did apple bobbing and Mam would make toffee and yes we scraped out the swede. I didn't encourage my kids to trick or treat either we usuall took them to the cinema instead to avoid all the high jinks. We had small garden fireworks and usually made a Guy for the local bonfire.
Apple bobbing was so much fun as a kid, we used to have a village halloween event for all the smaller children when I was around 7 or 8 :)
I actually rather like the smell of burning turnip! I never appreciated at the time the effort my mum was making, carving a lantern from one of those.
You're a bit younger than me I think, and there was no trick or treating when I was little. I *always* did celebrate Hallowe'en though - even with a very C of E mother - I think perhaps because my Dad was a Scot. I'd been given Oor Wullie and The Broons books as gifts, and seen their Hallowe'en fun and I wanted in! I had more than one party over the years, slightly to the bemusement of my friend group, because honestly it didn't seem to be made much of in Derbyshire at the time. I have always loved it though.
I also get very irritated when people grouch that trick or treat is a 'US import', because it is obvious that it comes from Scottish and Irish guising traditions - where historically you *did* go round asking for money - taken to the US by the immigrants in centuries past and has been modified and come back to us in what I consider to be a very entertaining form.
I gather one of the 'usual suspects' was moaning this week (in the Torygraph I believe) that Hallowe'en had eclipsed Bonfire Night, but the latter has become quite difficult to celebrate at home in recent decades. My childhood involved both fireworks and bonfires *in the back garden* in a manner that people (including me!) just don't want to risk, or don't have the space for nowadays. But having to make the effort to attend an organised event - if there even is one locally - makes it more of an undertaking. Fireworks themselves are now seen as problematic due to the effects on wildlife and pets, (let alone kids!) and the ordinary public are really not encouraged to buy them. Plus I don't think people are quite so sanguine now about celebrating the bloody end of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, even if they were traitors.
I love the smell too, it's so nostalgic :) Used to love the broons books too, I was handed down some from when mum and her siblings were kids.
I don't think John really did halloween either as he is from Derbyshire too.
Fireworks were not really done in gardens when I was little maybe it was because the village did it's own show and it was a small village i'm not sure, it was more common when my boys were little, but even then usually there would be a bigger gathering at one of the parents houses and everyone would bring one firework each :)