Is Halloween the new spend of Christmas?

There's one thing I won't be doing and that's dressing my dog up for Halloween in some crumby outfit for the amusement of others. Decided this a long time ago. Maybe a pair of silly antlers for a Christmas pose for a photo but nothing else!

Poor wee things, you do giggle when you're sent a forward email of hounds dressed up. The look on their faces! Like, "oh what next?!"

A dog is for life, not just for Halloween!

Don't know if it's just me but for some reason this year, the shops are really pushing sales for Halloween. I haven't seen so many pumpkins and Halloween toys on display in the supermarkets. It's like the new Christmas. Queues of people lining up to buy their costumes and accessories at the fancy dress shops and shoppers overloading their supermarket trolleys with random bits of Halloween type stuff.

Perhaps more and more people are having house parties than going out and are discovering the joys again of staying home rather than an outing to a bar or club. One good thing about having a house party is no more annoyances of standing at the bar and the bar man taking a fancy to the person next to you who has just that second arrived at the bar, while you on the other hand have been flashing your tenner at him as he blatantly ignores your "I would love to be served now please" plea....

You can also be DJ, select your tunes and not have some wanna be DJ playing the latest remixes of some guff chart tune and Hed Kandi album track nobody knows trying to look way to cool to be out on a Saturday night. Get some Madonna on...you know it makes sense! I'm joking, I have DJed on weekend nights and I know it's hard to play music to suit everyone. Some DJs get it right and some just dont. What does Gok say? It's all about the confidence!

Anyway, you can also decide who can come to your party, who's on your golden guestlist. Spend quality time with your mates and enjoy the banter as you all relax and have a giggle.

Maybe I am getting too old to be hanging out in bars but perhaps the cold nights are drawing in and I'd rather not be standing for ages in the chilly early hours at a taxi rank once my night's over, boozy with my Halloween outfit squashed by my winter coat and my make up smudged, half on my face and half somewhere else. (My boyfriend's shoulder, "I'm tired" as I lay my head to rest on his shoulder...)

Socialising at home is much more fun, it's perhaps better on the purse strings and even better this year as we can watch X Factor as well as celebrate Halloween on a Saturday night!

Already?!

It baffles me big time. I have heard an avdert on the radio for Christmas. Yep, a furniture store is giving it jingle bells already and it's only December. Ouch, it hurts my ears!!!

It's far too rainy!

Having been on holiday where the weather was rather dreadful (5 days out of 7, cold, stormy, rain and thunder....in Zante!!) we arrive back home to rain and even more crap weather!

I fear I may drown or see Noah float by on his ark.

Got me wondering, what would a dachshund do in the rain, dislike it as much me? Or perhaps find a walk in the rain therapeutic? We may need to buy a mac for my doggy. Is it cool for dogs to wear clothes?

You don't see cats dressing up to go outside. Well I haven't ever seen a cat outside in a duffel coat. Now there's a thought.

Wooosh!

It was sooooo windy yesterday, when I stepped out my front door I left my hair do on the door step. More like hair don't than hair do after the wind attempted to style my hair.

When I was driving saw a couple of dogs out for a walk in the wind with their owners. Don't know who was more in control of the walk, the owner or the dogs. All seemed to be hanging on for fear of lift off. It was quite funny. But having a giggle at other's expense is naughty as it'll come back to haunt you....well me anyway! I would be the person with the hair flying all over the place, zig zagging all about, my coat flapping in the wind and my poor dog looking at me as if I was the embarrassing Auntie trying to dance like the cool kids at the cousin's wedding. But out of time to the beats and cringe worthy moves to the DJs tunes. Yup that'd be me!