Good ol’ 39 Pontiac Dreamer, one of my regular readers, is as big a fan of Halloween as I am. To that end, he e-mailed me a TON of Halloween pictures over the weekend, including his and his wife’s Jack O’Lanterns. He says hers is the more elaborate one, while he goes for a simpler, more classic approach (like me).
Per Ponty:
We had a few trick or treaters over the evening but, thankfully, not at a crucial point in any of our films…. The films in the pictures by the way are Ringu and the Romero classic Dawn of the Dead.
Ponty also sent me some excellent photographs of an English sunrise—in September! I’ve been so slammed, I keep forgetting to upload them. Look for those next Tuesday.
For now, here are the pictures of Ponty’s British Halloween:
Thanks, Ponty—and apologies for taking so long to get these and the sunrise pictures up.
Happy Belated Halloween!
—TPP
Cheers Port. 🙂
The image where you say ‘not sure what this is but it looks scary’ is a collection of ornaments – Moroccan style candle holder and pyramid storage – near a fake fern which happened to have an eerie green light behind it. Tina and I both love lights – we’re kids when it comes to certain times of the year. Christmas is where she really gets to let loose!
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I thought I saw a pyramid! It was hard to make out in the thumbnail size preview in WordPress.
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Tina asked me to thank your missus on her behalf. Tina’s pumpkin was inspired by the one your other half carved and which you put up. If you can pass on Tina’s thanks, that would be much appreciated. 🙂
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I will definitely pass that along. She will be happy to know that, I’m sure. Also, yesterday was her birthday!
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Please wish her a happy belated birthday from both of us. 🙂
Did you take her anywhere nice?
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I surely will!
I did. On Sunday she was here and we had a nice lunch and saw _Halloween Kills_ (and watched _Halloween 4_, that morning). I also got her a couple of LEGO sets, haha: some Harry Potter BrickHeadz, and a set depicting Thor’s “New Asgard” man cave from the last Avengers film.
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39 Pontiac Dream and Tee2 are some of the nicest people you will ever meet without meeting. I met 39 on a conservative political blog in the UK. In true English fashion, any time he commented on something I’d written, he was kind, funny, and incredibly savvy about politics on both sides of the Pond. I’d only been commenting on the blog for a few months but that Christmas, 39 and Tee2 posted a link to a Christmas carol to me, on the blog. It was one of the most touching things that have happened to me and I’ve never forgotten it.
But don’t ask him about dark toast.
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Bless you, Audre. Without getting too gushy and gooey, you are flat out the nicest person we’ve ever met without meeting. One day…
No, I don’t think I’ll venture down the dark toast road. We could be here for a while! 🙂
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Well, now I’ve GOT to know what dark toast is. Set the toaster to too hot for too long?
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Sigh … like all men (wink), 39 has a tendency toward hyperbole. Tee2 and I like a little color to our toast, a bit of a satisfying crunch when we take a bite. That’s all. And as toast does not come with color charts, we get to determine our own correct amount of ‘color’. 39 has a tad bit of color ‘sensitivity’ and we try to humor him.
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Haha, I understand. Nothing wrong with a little crunch.
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Audre is the kindest, most generous person I have ever known. I love her very much, she is truly my sister in every way.
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Oh, Alys.
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Don’t ask him about bra flinging either eh Audre?
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My favorite pastime! : D
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(eye roll) Who woke you up??? Like the Beatles sang, Let it be …
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Flad you mentioned it, Alys, so I don’t have to.
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Uh?
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39 – “Nothing to see here. Move along”
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Big hugs for you both.
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‘Well, now I’ve GOT to know what dark toast is. Set the toaster to too hot for too long?’
Carcinogenic. Bread left so long in the toaster than the room is smoke when you stumble in to take it out and the toast is so burned, it breaks when you try to spread anything on it. I love Tina and Audre to bits but their way of doing toast is just not right! 🙂
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HA! I gotcha. Yeah, you’ve gotta have a little give in the bread.
I like soft, chewy cookies. My mom loves them burnt nearly to cinders—and hard. So I grew up eating hard, slightly overbaked cookies. Shelby does them right—loads of chocolate chips and the right amount of softness.
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Big baby.
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Your girlfriend likes horror movies and lego? She and Tina would get on like a house on fire! 🙂
As soon as we get the opportunity, Tina and I are coming to America. We’ve met, of sorts, too many wonderful people here, on Neo, and on TCW and a face to face definitely has to be on the cards.
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Yes, when you wrote how much you and Tina enjoy childlike fun and such, I was like, “Sounds me and the Shelbster.” She like certain horror movies, and loves watching the _Halloween_ flicks in October (her favorite month).
Please do come to the States. It wouldn’t be too difficult to get from Florida (Audre) to South Carolina (me). Neo being in Nebraska might require a domestic flight out to Lincoln. Perhaps we could arrange it to where we all get together in some centralized location.
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It would, it’s about a 3-day drive. Kearney is a lot closer, but he needs to be warned, our domestic airliners aren’t near as nice as the ones that go to Europe.
I even know where Grand Duke Alexei of Russia went hunting with Buffalo Bill, bet you don’t have that in Calinky. But we don’t have as nice a city as Charlestown either.
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No Grand Dukes hunting here, as far as I know, but we have our share of eccentric characters and historical oddities.
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BTW my favoritebattlefield is in the neighborhood, if not the state. I really found Cowpens fascinating.
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Yeah, we are chock full of Revolutionary War history, in addition to our more ubiquitous role in the American Civil War/War of Northern Aggression/War for Southern Independence (just trying to trigger everyone here, haha). You’ll have to come to SC sometime, Neo, and we can visit some of the historic sites together.
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Loved it last time, somewhere around 1970. One of the best trips I ever did with my folks. Just haven’tr traveled mu other than for business in adulthood. Lots of good memorieseven so.
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Neo – Geez, louise! Another county heard from.
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Hi Neo.
If we ever did make it over there, we wouldn’t be flying, either internationally or domestically. Tina is scared of flying so we’d get a ferry over there and then drive everywhere; it helps that I enjoy driving and for me, it’s the best form of transport. We can stop where we want and it’d be a hell of a lot more convenient. The only thing I’d need to do is learn how to drive on the wrong side of the road! 🙂
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Whoa, a transatlantic voyage. Quite a romantic way to travel these days. Plan on taking at least two or three months off work so youc an savor it.
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We certainly would. Might have to see if we can hire a Pontiac Firebird for the journey! 🙂
Chilli time now. See you all tomorrow. 🙂
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Enjoy the chili! I hope to be on the road tomorrow morning by the time Friday’s post pops, but I will catch up with comments as soon as possible.
Alys, apologies in advance if it takes a few hours to approve your comments. I still don’t know why it makes me approve your comments every single time, and I can’t figure out a way (at least, not an easy way) to prevent the spam filter from marking your comments as “pending approval.” But that just means we’ll all get a good read whenever I take a moment to hit “approve” in the WordPress app while steering with one hand. : D
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