Happy Halloween

Mmmmm, my head woke up celebrating Halloween early, all a bit scary and sore, I'm swearing off Jager Bombs - again - for the rest of my natural life.

We made a fairly disconsolate trip into Midleton and staggered about Tesco's with our trolley, throwing food into it and hovering around the Halloween section for a while, trying to find some form of accessory to wear to tonight's party. There were the most divine pair of tights that I wish they'd had in grown up sizes, black with silver glitter spider webs all over them, how cool but they only had children's size 7 - 8 and I thought having tights with a crotch sitting somewhere around my knees might be taking the notion of fancy dress that ounce too far. So I settled for a red sequinned tail and an alice band featuring little red devil horns.

We got home as quickly as possible and I made for my bed, aren't afternoon naps just the best thing!! I woke up at 5 much restored although still not able to return to the Blackbird for the Curry Cup final which I dimly recall we'd talked the pub owner into showing - kept checking the score on the internet though and YAY for the Sharks, 30-10 over the Stormers, your man was at the game in Durbs and no doubt he'll be taking over tomorrow morning as the owner of previously mentioned very sore head!

The residents of Mrs Walsh's cottage were coming over for dinner and knowing that we were all in need of comfort food - and a good lining of the stomach before we headed for the Halloween party - we made roast chicken with, if I say so myself, wicked sausage, apple and pecan nut stuffing, roast potatoes, and cauliflower and broccoli with very cheesy sauce, so good.

We made for the Barn, who were hosting the Halloween bash, just before 10 and they'd done such a great job - big fire outside and the garden filled with carved pumpkins, the bloody weather didn't play along though and it rained for most of the night which was such a pity. Having been in the sticks for so long, I've pretty much missed out on Halloween but it was such fun, there were some really good costumes - I abused my black eyliner and added some whiskers and a black nose to my get up and managed to attach my tail to the back of my leggings using my name badge.

I didn't last much past midnight (the vodka punch caught me unawares) but I believe it went on till well after 3, there's a serious shortage of males on this particular course, they're outnumbered about 5:1 and so there was some serious dancing in the lounge, a whole bunch of us girls shrieking away at the top of our voices and dancing around like mad things, it was great!