Yesterday was...

Apparently it was halloween yesterday. To be honest it's not something I've ever paid much attention to, or held a great deal of interest in, but I did notice on a bike ride last night that there were a few groups of children doing the whole "trick or treat" thing -- although I'm told these days they're more inclined to ask for money than sweets. I just wish they wouldn't suddenly run across the road at night dressed in all black.

I have mixed feelings on the whole "trick or treat" thing. On the one hand, I'm not sure I'd want my children (if I had any) knocking on stranger's doors and accepting "treats" from them -- particularly here on the Gold Coast. On the other hand, these days there seem to be fewer and fewer places where kids are just allowed to be kids. The streets these days aren't exactly safe for playing in given the number of hoons running around, and most parks these days are barely big enough to fit the sign listing all the "prohibited activities", and at school a lot of kids are told to start putting together a Cirriculum Vitae by the age of 11. Maybe for once we should just let kids be kids for a while, and surely it has to be more healthy than being sat in front of computer games all day.