Show us your Pumpkins!

Anyone carved a good pumpkin this year?

These are ours:


Don't be shy - show us your best efforts :broon:

had this style last year:



(not mine, but very similar)

For trick or treaters.

Empty the shot from the cartridge case and replace with a mixture of rock salt and rice, even at point blank range it won't break the skin or damage the clothing, they never come back, or there mates as the word spreads fast.

After firing make sure you clean the barrel properly as the rock salt can get caught in the rifling and may cause internal surface rusting.

Better still; got to the pub, have a few pints of real ale and wait till the little demons have gone home to bed.

I have to disillusion all you followers of USA habits but when I was a kid we made turnip lanterns.
Like so:-

It was really really hard work and was likely to involve serious injury to your hands or even your legs if you wedged the damn thing between your knees and hacked away at it with the extremely blunt knife your mother allowed you to use. Making a hole big enough to get a candle in was a herculean task more fitting of the overdeveloped muscles of the demi-god rather than a weedy under sized eight year old. :bang:

I'm sure this will raise the North South debate about 'what is a turnip?' but I can assure you that they were universally known as 'turnip lanterns', and to make a turnip lantern out of whatever those tiny insipid things are you call turnips down there would have been farcical.

This is our four year old granddaughter's effort



Made with the last pumpkin on sale in our local supermarket.


Well OK it was her mother that cut out the cat but she scooped the flesh out...