Woolly pumpkin

As opposed to one of the Smashing Pumpkins, an American rock band whose work I am not that  familiar with but whose name is pretty cool. The photo shows the latest woollen postbox topper on the postbox outside the village hall. Returning to the American reference, the pumpkin - and the whole trick and treat thing - is an American import that seems to have taken over here this century. When I was growing up in the 1950s the only thing we did to mark Halloween was apple bobbing. Our way of blagging cash was to make a guy and ask for a penny for the guy, the guy of course being an effigy of Guy Fawkes whose demise is "celebrated" on Bonfire Night, 5th November.