h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's always been my favourite 'holiday', though I've never been quite sure why! So I'm asking, what does halloween mean to you? any scary stories/experiences to help conjure up the atmosphere n help chase away the blues?

Teenage delinquents from three towns away come round your house demanding sweets (and in some cases alcohol, cigs or cash), or they'll put your windows in.

Wish I was joking. I hate Halloween.

Have to agree with Croz...Just another excuse for the local youngsters to be more of a nuisance than they normally are

Emmily

N there was me trying to cheer up

It means the new year in the garden.

Does it? I wasn't aware of that.. though I know some people see it as new year in diffeent respects...

I'm in training to be an old miser, so I automatically hate things like Halloween and Xmas. 'Bah, humbug' and all that.

Hey Ged I live with someone just like you...accept he's a fully trained old miser

Emmily

bah humbug, kids these days, bah humbug, where are all the workhouses, bah humbug.

Autumn is the beginning of the gardening year, when we plant things ready to grow next year. It's really the best time of the year for gardeners, although my garden always looks best in spring.

Maybe I should try a few plants on my balcony..might cheer me up a bit! I've no clue about that type of thing though..

I don't 'do' containers much, although I do find myself advising Andrew (my Producer) as he has window boxes. I'm never sure if the advice I give is right, as I'm used to just chicking things in the ground and hoping for the best. I normally get the mediocre, but that's because I'm a bit lazy about making sure things are planted at the right depth.

I have no green fingers at all so you're still better at it than me

What kind of things can you plant at this time of year?

Bulbs for late winter/spring flowering plants.

Winter bedding plants.

Anything that is perenial and used to the type of winters that most of us are about to have.

*wonders why Mina insists on growing her winter bedding*

YAY

I love this one day of the year. Gives me chance to scare the kids

Halloween - in France it means I get to winge about the purely commercial introduction of a celebration that has absolutely no foundation in French culture simply to up the profits of certain shops and bars

In my case, I get to be one of those, well not quite teenaged anymore. deliquents gadding about town in a silly costume, quite possibly under the infulence. That and the Rocky Horror Picture Show!

I may try to get to a party n end up very under the influence myself could certainly do with it at the mo..