Childhood Halloween costumes:

• Sad clown. You can’t tell by this photo, but there was a teardrop painted on my face.
• Pebbles Flintstone.
• Blue-faced witch because the face paint packaging was labelled green when it was in fact blue.
• Princess.
• Devil.
• Cheerleader.

Maggie was more surprised than she should have been when I revealed that I’d once been a cheerleader. We’d spotted zombie cheerleaders walking down the driveway of a mansion to collect their fun-sized treats when I made this revelation. I meant I’d been a cheerleader for Halloween.

You can be anything for Halloween, except for someone else’s culture.

Sadly, my costume this year was unrecognizable to all but one person. No wonder nobody could guess what I was making based on the photo in the previous blog post.

On October 31st 2021, I went as: