Post by waybec on Sept 5, 2006 10:52:41 GMT
I remember when I was a kid of about 14, me, my friend and my younger brother all parked the push bikes one day and decided to make an impromptu visit to some churchyard.
(Oh yeah, here we go, everyone's said!)
But before we knew it, a young teenage boy with bright blond hair appeared the other side of a garden wall and began chatting to us.
In the distance there was also a cottage with about 4 pre-teenage girls dancing ring-a-ring-a-roses in front of it.
With the sun beginning to set, we all suddenly realized that today of all days was Halloween! And so naturally scaring ourselves silly - we all scarpered! Particularly when a grim looking priest behind the church's stain glass windows, was also caught staring out at us..!
Of course it wasn't until much later that we viewed things as being a little off kilter and odd.
...Why were the young girls all wearing string bonnets with old fashioned white aprons on? Why did the garden still look like it was enjoying a warm summer when it was in fact October 31st? And why was the boy seemingly dressed in a turn of the Century tweed suit, when back then I was living in the decade of bad taste - the 1970's! Ha. More tellingly, why couldn't none of us remember the boy's name or even one word of the things he had said..?
Yep, all stuff and nonsense I know...! We said it all even back then. However, when we did finally pluck up the courage to go back about two months later, the garden was just found to be a tangled mass of weeds and the cozy little cottage now stood derelict, dilapidated and very empty!
To this day I still do not fully comprehend what went on?
...Had we just stumbled across some fancy dress party going on? Or had we indeed taken one step back too far that day - where now I just look back upon it like some golden hazy dream... Um, best cue Rod Serling for that one ...!!!
(Oh yeah, here we go, everyone's said!)
But before we knew it, a young teenage boy with bright blond hair appeared the other side of a garden wall and began chatting to us.
In the distance there was also a cottage with about 4 pre-teenage girls dancing ring-a-ring-a-roses in front of it.
With the sun beginning to set, we all suddenly realized that today of all days was Halloween! And so naturally scaring ourselves silly - we all scarpered! Particularly when a grim looking priest behind the church's stain glass windows, was also caught staring out at us..!
Of course it wasn't until much later that we viewed things as being a little off kilter and odd.
...Why were the young girls all wearing string bonnets with old fashioned white aprons on? Why did the garden still look like it was enjoying a warm summer when it was in fact October 31st? And why was the boy seemingly dressed in a turn of the Century tweed suit, when back then I was living in the decade of bad taste - the 1970's! Ha. More tellingly, why couldn't none of us remember the boy's name or even one word of the things he had said..?
Yep, all stuff and nonsense I know...! We said it all even back then. However, when we did finally pluck up the courage to go back about two months later, the garden was just found to be a tangled mass of weeds and the cozy little cottage now stood derelict, dilapidated and very empty!
To this day I still do not fully comprehend what went on?
...Had we just stumbled across some fancy dress party going on? Or had we indeed taken one step back too far that day - where now I just look back upon it like some golden hazy dream... Um, best cue Rod Serling for that one ...!!!