Halloween was a big festival in America long before it reached here. I recall driving along the suburban streets and motorways and seeing huge piles of orange pumpkins in pram ids by the roadsides, banners over the supermarkets, and houses with displays of spiders webs like a spooky version of Xmas in a ghost town.
Now every supermarket in Britain has a display inside near the door and often beside the potted plants and garden displays by the main entrance on the pavement. (To you readers in the US in the UK we say pavement for what you would call sidewalk, whilst our roadway or paved road is what you would call pavement).
Some people get a free live deadly spider in their bananas from the supermarket. Other customers have to make do with an imitation spider and pay for it.
I've checked out the offerings online at ebay and Waitrose and Tesco. You can buy three large spiders for about £3 from Waitrose and Tesco. Also look in Poundland. A spider or spiders web is was what I needed for my Toastmasters talk on Bruce and the spider. I shall buy when the prices fall after Hallowe-en, hoping the supermarkets have some leftovers.
Now every supermarket in Britain has a display inside near the door and often beside the potted plants and garden displays by the main entrance on the pavement. (To you readers in the US in the UK we say pavement for what you would call sidewalk, whilst our roadway or paved road is what you would call pavement).
Some people get a free live deadly spider in their bananas from the supermarket. Other customers have to make do with an imitation spider and pay for it.
I've checked out the offerings online at ebay and Waitrose and Tesco. You can buy three large spiders for about £3 from Waitrose and Tesco. Also look in Poundland. A spider or spiders web is was what I needed for my Toastmasters talk on Bruce and the spider. I shall buy when the prices fall after Hallowe-en, hoping the supermarkets have some leftovers.
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