Halloween is great fun and we enjoy the trick or treat kids that come around for their pack of Haribos. This year we had spiders on wires that are triggered by the doorbell. They press the doorbell, the spiders drop and then start climbing back up their strings. We answer the door when the screaming stops.

Gizmo tries to join in – this amounts to looking glum in pictures – see the Pump-Cairn below and hurling himself at the front door to provide percussion to accompany the screaming – good dog.

This may turn into one of a series, Cairn on the Cob, Cairngorm-less etc.

Although my daughter had friends round to watch a movie, my son was away at a friends – not sure how much trick or treating occurred, I suspect more like 8 hours of unadulterated mind-numbing CoD4 online. In between teenies and screaming we watched Drag Me To Hell. Billed as “The scariest film of the decade”, it wasn’t.