I'm 50 and i've never heard of it, Everynight is mischief night in my part of Glasgow
Mischief Night
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Threevok
Growing old disgracefully
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- South Wales
[QUOTE 5020968, member: 259"]We did the turnip thing for halloween. They were a damn sight harder to carve than a pumpkin.[/QUOTE]
I found that too, although I thinkI may have boiled it too long first
I found that too, although I thinkI may have boiled it too long first
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MontyVeda
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[QUOTE 5020968, member: 259"]We did the turnip thing for halloween. They were a damn sight harder to carve than a pumpkin.[/QUOTE]
we were talking about carving turnips last night too. I recall my mother doing it once... but usually on Halloween we got a jam jar wrapped in a sheet of writing paper with the face cut out of it. Half a candle inside and a string handle... the jars would inevitably shatter after twenty minutes.
we were talking about carving turnips last night too. I recall my mother doing it once... but usually on Halloween we got a jam jar wrapped in a sheet of writing paper with the face cut out of it. Half a candle inside and a string handle... the jars would inevitably shatter after twenty minutes.
4th November in the late 80s and 1990s in the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire. A lot of eggs on windows and doors in the 1990s. A lot of knock-a- door-run. Some places like Barnsley and the villages going up into North Yorkshire celebrate it a lot more.
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
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- Thumberland
Don't remember Mischief Night, but I do remember buying bangers from the newsagents, then lighting them and daring each other to ride over them on our bikes after lighting/before the bang! Or the classic putting a banger in a pile of dog's doo-dahs
Heady days indeed
Heady days indeed
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
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- Plymouth
My Dad carved us a swede when I was about 5 (1986). Up until now I thought that was because he was too tight to buy a pumpkin, but now I realise it may have been the done thing.
I find it a shame that so many pumpkins will be wasted again this year. I try to buy up a few on Nov 1st for cheap, dice them up and freeze them.
I find it a shame that so many pumpkins will be wasted again this year. I try to buy up a few on Nov 1st for cheap, dice them up and freeze them.
petek
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On our part of the Pennines, Mischief Night was Halloween.
Swedes, not pumpkins; for lanterns.
Swedes, not pumpkins; for lanterns.
petek
Über Member
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- East Coast UK
[QUOTE 5021284, member: 259"]You must have been south of the "turnip line" 
But that's a whole new controversy...[/QUOTE]
Swedes we always had.
Turnips not so much and , where available; those tended to be of the 'snowball' variety hence too small to hold a candle.
But that's a whole new controversy...[/QUOTE]
Swedes we always had.
Turnips not so much and , where available; those tended to be of the 'snowball' variety hence too small to hold a candle.
Always the 4th of November in this part of West Yorkshire.
Bonfire night always 5th of November unless it fell on Sunday, then it would be Saturday or Monday, now it seems to be any day of the week before or after 5th November.
Halloween was never a thing and IMO is another shite US import.
Bonfire night always 5th of November unless it fell on Sunday, then it would be Saturday or Monday, now it seems to be any day of the week before or after 5th November.
Halloween was never a thing and IMO is another shite US import.
growingvegetables
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- Leeds
Some of the stuff attached to it now is "new/imported" ... but it's an old, old festival.
Nobody's mentioned dooking for apples?
Biff600
Veteran
Bazzer
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IIRC it was the 4th where I grew up. (Outskirts of Stockport).
Yes its a very old festival, but what I mean is I don't remember all the dressing up/trick and treating and commercialism that accompanies it today.
