We had stolen turnips from a farmers field or potatoes hollowed out,better than nowt,but if we had a turnip we used to eat the raw inside and the soot blackened lid from the candle smoke and convince ourselves it tasted great,gave us the shits.
This year I have wandered round a black area in New York on my own at 2AM and skid-row LA in broad daylight,Skid-Row I felt uneasy,it’s filled with thousands of crazies and some of them get right in your face.
There’s people you would pass in the street and not give a second look too in the UK who have 4 million quid stashed away,as I said as kids a million quid is wealth untold,it’s still a few quid but it’s not what it once was.
I went down a track last week with 12,000 pumpkins lining it,most people here celebrate in a big way,got some industrial sized bags of chocolate for trick or treat,all a bit of fun.
4.2 million isn’t a lot in this day and age Wilf,I remember as a kid a million was an unimaginable sum of cash,for todays generation it’s a billion,I suspect some of his wealth will have been in property,asset rich.