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Usually, weather permitting, I deck front yard with FX, props etc etc, light porch with UV & 'Disco' lights, hand out glow-sticks by the dozen, open a second tub of sweets. Score the 'Trick or Treat' groups for effort...

Last year was a 'rain-check', I stayed closed for fear of pneumonia. Sad, really, as I'd acquired a bubble-machine with fluorescent 'juice', out-door UV floodlamp, an inflatable 'Anime' witch plus her leashed guard-hounds etc etc etc...

This year, night was forecast as 'mostly harmless', cool, damp, but NOT raining, side-ways or otherwise.

And, it was a week-end, which tends to boost 'Wild Hunt' numbers.

Even so, this afternoon, I could not find the energy to 'set out'...

Still had the porch UV & 'Disco' lights, though: I just had to switch them on.

But, between ~1800 and ~2100 local (GMT/Zulu), only one (1) knock came, a young mum and her two pre-school 'mini-princesses'. They got a handful of sweets each, an orange glow-stick.

And that was that...

Oh, well, maybe next year ??

I hadn't realised the Old Dart took Halloween even slightly seriously. The big deal when I was growing up was Guy Fawke's Night.

Too many 'local bonfire' sites became seriously incendiary, people got hurt.

Several years, our near-by parks' organised displays had to be cancelled due Covid, weather etc.

Also, my beloved wife used to watch the 'Trick or Treat' groups on our CCTV, score them.
And asked me to keep up the tradition as best I could after she passed...

But getting one (1) small group was a bit of a come-down from some years' twenty or so...

We only had one group of visitors as well, the family across the street with two young kids. I guess our part of the neighborhood (which we just moved into in January) is rather quiet.

Our son did one round in his grandparents' neighborhood with his little cousins, then rode with his friend's family to another neighborhood. He got quite a haul.

But to the point, now we have three Costco-sized bags of candy that we don't know what to do with..

No trick or treaters here. I think I have had only one in the five years I have owned my condo.