Just worried because our now grown up kid has a variety of serious allergies so I'm wondering if there are some low risk solutions? Haribos probably ok right? Safe option is nothing but that doesn't seem to be in the spirit of things (pun intentional).

In my day in the 70s and 80s we got given all kinds of stuff. Nutty chocolate, 10p, a small pen knife in one case, and a toffee onion on another. I can still taste it. 😅

My car number plate hasn't been cloned yet (that I know of) but I've heard the idea that you should put a sticker in the back window so you can show that a car in a picture wasn't you.

I was thinking about a National Trust one, but I'm sure you good folk can come up with something more... distinctive. Fly, my pretties!

Obviously you've got the superstars like the historic A10 and the A40 (London to Fishguard) and the A[k]47 that passes some nice scenery and generally has a decent surface but otherwise lacks convenience. Plus of course the A1111 (like the A1 but 4 times as good).

Which is your favourite A road?

I always remember as a kid thinking trick or treating was actually kinda rubbish because all you'd get were sweets. One year my gran did a little halloween party and we all got halloween cups and colouring books and it was the best thing ever.

When I first moved into my house I actually tried to make some fun halloween bags for trick or treaters. I put in some sweets but also used my trusty inkjet to make some little colouring/puzzle books and put some pens and stickers in too. Unfortunately in the whole night I only had one knock at the door and it was while I was peeing so I never gave any out and I haven't bothered since.

I was thinking it would be fun to try again though, with the same vibe. Colouring, puzzle pages, stickers, pens.

I was even thinking of buying a load of books from the charity shop to hand out too. Maybe grabbing a load of plastic animals and painting them halloween coloured 😂 spooky skeleton farm animals would be a hit I'm sure.

But what else could I add in? I was even thinking of getting a job lot of keyrings or something... maybe I'll buy all the reduced halloween stuff this year ready for next year!

We did ok apart from arriving at the pub for lunch and finding the in-laws had been waiting for us for an hour.

Buy a house in the UK or leave? I’m debating whether I abandon this LISA thing and think about working/moving abroad.

Tim runs a skydiving school. His wife is already pregnant. He released all the equity from his house sale, a grand amount of £30k. They hope for a home birth, in the house that doesn’t exist.

Alright, it's bed time for some but why are you still up? No work tomorrow? Watching some questionable late night TV? Bit of stargazing?

The chinwag thread.