It
appears that things have moved on some from my last post about Halloween in
Australia, or maybe we’re just more in the loop of what’s happening with the
primary-school social scene. As it turns out, there is trick-or-treating in
Canberra, and on Wednesday evening we headed out to see what it was like. And,
aside from the accents and the spring flowers everywhere, it wasn’t that much
different than last year in Missouri; even the weather was only a few degrees warmer
than the mild autumn weather we experienced on both of our Midwestern
Halloweens.
We
joined forces with a group of Miss B’s Year 2 classmates and their parents, and
spent an hour or more visiting houses receptive to doorbell ringers. Adoption
of the trick-or-treating tradition isn’t universal, and at least in our
neighborhood, is concentrated among families with school-age children. So
someone in the community had the good idea to make and distribute signs for
people to put up, advertising houses as “trick-or-treat friendly” - and
ensuring that those who weren’t participating wouldn’t be bothered.
2 comments:
Cherry ripes are fabulous! A chewy cherry and coconut filling wrapped in dark chocolate - and the dark is important - very few bars seem to use decent dark chocolate.
Dan Lepard has a recipe for a great cherry ripe slice if you decide you like them :)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jun/18/cherry-ripe-bars-recipe-lepard?INTCMP=SRCH
Okay, beck, you may have convinced me to raid the candy stash after all! Thanks for the expert knowledge.
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