Times may change but Love Hearts should remain constant

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So, last Tuesday it was Halloween, and living in an area with lots of young families we really went to town buying bag upon bag of sweets and putting little piles of change on the shelf by the front door - no child would go away unhappy from our house, no siree.

Getting into the spirit of the event Stuart, invested in some Halloween props of his own which he figured would amuse the little ghosts, goblins and ghouls who knocked on our door with thoughts of extortion and blackmail. The props included joke lights that sit behind the ears, invisible until they are turned on with the surreptitious flick of a switch - whereby your ears appear to glow bright red for no apparent reason, and an artificial thumb which also has a hidden red light inside it...

...the idea is to trick the children into thinking you can transfer the light from your ears onto your thumb and then, with a swift movement to the side of the childs head, suggest that you had transferred the light to their own ears - and if they haven't already run away screaming for an adult, you can even transfer the light back again in the same way...

Genius.

Except, this year for some reason no children came to our house

Whilst I figure their parents just threw a Halloween party for them this year instead, it's also possible that the kids simply remembered Stuart from last year (... all I'm saying is he likes to participate in Halloween), and decided to miss us out of their route.

Either way, we were left with loads of kiddies sweets to get through ourselves.


YAY!!


I opened the mix bag to find a distinct absence of Parma Violets and Climpies (despite the picture on the front of the pack).


(Harrumph!)


Fortunately, I'm an adult and can rise above this little disappointment...


(sulk)


Really... I can...


Anyway, to cut a long sulk short, I felt much happier when I found the tube of Love Hearts lurking at the bottom of the bag. Talk about blast from the past.

So, there was I - expecting to see those familiar slogans...

'Be Mine'
'My Guy'
'Love You'
'Stay Cool'


Not these days it seems...


The first two that I saw were:

'Text Me'
'Email Me'


...I'm scared to eat any more in case I find any other new additions - maybe a 'Pimp My Ride' or 'BCNU' (...suggestions on a postcard...)