Its amazing how the weather takes you back. The stinging air and crunch of fallen leaves always takes me back to Halloween of my youth — particularly my awkward teenage years. Riding in the back of a friends pick-up truck screaming down country lanes. Me and my ne’er-do-well friends seeing who can outbrave and outscare one another as we make another pilgrimage to Barnabas Collins’ grave (a Barnabas Collins maybe or maybe not THE Barnabas Collins – read about it here).

Warm up some cider, turn up the hi•fi, put out the treats and scare up some tricks. Happy halloween everyone.