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Monday, 28 October 2019

Halloween

Halloween
Did you Know
That's Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing
Random Joke of the Day
Funny Fobia
Word of the Day
New Releases





Halloween

  
Ghosts and Goolies
Spirits and spooks
Scared of stiffies
Ectoplasm pukes

Bumps in the 
night
And Vampire
Bites

A Werewolf's 
Howl
It loosens my
Bowel

And the worse one
yet
What makes a cold
sweat

When I think of
the twist
None of you
exist !



  • Trick or treating comes from the Middle-Age practice of the poor dressing up in costumes and going around door to door during Hallowmas begging for food or money in exchange for prayers. The food given was often a Soul Cake, which was a small round cake which represented a soul being freed from Purgatory when the cake was eaten.
  • Halloween is also know by other names:
    All Hallows Eve
    Samhain
    All Hallowtide
    The Feast of the Dead
    The Day of the Dead
  • The owl is a popular Halloween animal. In Medieval Europe, owls were thought to be witches, and to hear an owl's call meant someone was about to die.

  • Halloween was brought to North America by immigrants from Europe who would celebrate the harvest around a bonfire, share ghost stories, sing, dance and tell fortunes.
  • Orange and black are Halloween colours because orange is associated with the Fall harvest and black is associated with darkness and death.

  • Jack o lanterns originated in Ireland where people placed candles in hollowed-out turnips to keep away spirits and ghosts on the Samhain holiday.

    A pumpkin is a berry in the cucurbitaceae family, which also includes melons, cucumbers, squash and gourds. All these plants are native to the Americas.

    That's Amaaaaaaaaaaaazing

    World's Heaviest Pumpkin Tips the Scales at 2,096 Pounds. MAINZ, Germany — A Swiss gardener has grown the world's heaviest pumpkin — and it weighs almost as much as a small car. Beni Meier, 30, had to use a special vehicle to transport the fruit, which tipped the scales at 2,096.6 lbs.


    Random Joke of the Day

    Costume party. Host: What are you? Me: A harp Host: Ur costume's too small to be a harp. Me: Are you calling me a lyre?


    Funny Fobia

    Samhainophobia is an intense fear of Halloween.

    Released Monday ;-

    Wednesday Words



    Wednesday’s child is full of woe.

    If that was true then the child found joy, creativity and friendship through the Workers Education Association.
    For on Wednesday a group of very different creative writers meet. A range of different ages, sexes and backgrounds come together with one burning purpose, to write.
    This anthology is a homage to this group and a love letter to you the reader. The work you’ll find in here ranges from the heart-breaking to the humorous. There is no theme other than one, they were all born on a Wednesday.

    Wednesday words

    The Worker’s Educational Association was founded in 1903,

                      it is the UK's largest voluntary sector provider of adult
                      education and one of Britain's biggest charities.
                      The WEA is a democratic and voluntary adult education
                      movement. It delivers learning throughout England
                      and Scotland. The WEA's provision is usually local to
                      its students. In 2015–16 there were over 8,000 courses
                      delivered in over 1,800 community venues and 75% of
                      WEA students travelled less than 2 miles to their class.
                      The Wednesday Writing group meet on…Wednesday’s.
                      They are a collection of very different people from a
                      myriad of backgrounds. This group come together in
                      mutual respect and in a mutual aim...to write.

    Within this book you find poems and stories on many
                      different themes they have no common thread other
                      than they were born on a Wednesday.  

    This wonderful book is available on Amazon, Kobo, Barnes Noble and Kobo

    Here is a link to the Amazon page   https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07ZG36BMK?pf_rd_p=330fbd82-d4fe-42e5-9c16-d4b886747c64&pf_rd_r=304EEZVA6KJVF08P6PF0


    AND RELEASED THIS WEEK................

    Tales of the Unexpected.

    In this book we’ll cover such subjects as -  

    What happens when two retiring hitmen meet for a final dinner to talk about their past, and probably limited future.

    What’s in a name, oh he’ll tell you but you’ll wish you hadn’t asked.

    Is it the love of money or is it’s moneys love for you…we follow a coin to find out.

    A failing bookstore takes full advantage of a desperate situation.

    And much, much more


    This is the third in the highly successful ‘Tales of..’ series.
    The stories enclosed are varied but all have a delightful dark pumping vein of humour and twist in the telling.

    Satisfaction guaranteed.

    Just in time for Halloween !!! - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tales-Unexpected-Neville-Raper/dp/1687345600/ref=sr_1_3?crid=M4YU6IZ0J52Q&keywords=neville+raper&qid=1572001622&s=digital-text&sprefix=neville+rape%2Cdigital-text%2C173&sr=1-3-catcorr
    Extramundaneoutside or beyond the physical world