When I was a kid (in north-east Scotland) it was "guising" - dressing up was not always in spooky things and the intention was that you had a "party piece" to earn your reward.
Various of the parents down our street would lay on things (ducking for apples, for example, later replaced with the "safer" version of trying to spear them with a fork dropped from a chair...). It was a very middle-class area :)
We've had a mixture. None at all last year, but previously we've had the older kids wearing a mask, and younger ones with their parents. We've also had "carol singers" before Christmas whose only carol is two lines of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" followed by an expectation of money. It's not that I'm expecting four-part harmony, but a proper carol would be nice!
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Date: 2009-10-14 12:08 pm (UTC)Various of the parents down our street would lay on things (ducking for apples, for example, later replaced with the "safer" version of trying to spear them with a fork dropped from a chair...). It was a very middle-class area :)
We've had a mixture. None at all last year, but previously we've had the older kids wearing a mask, and younger ones with their parents. We've also had "carol singers" before Christmas whose only carol is two lines of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" followed by an expectation of money. It's not that I'm expecting four-part harmony, but a proper carol would be nice!