1. Quite a few actually as it's not a big thing in Germany - about 5 groups of kids.

2. Hm ... never for Halloween only carnival ... some homemade princess costume when I was really small.

3. Baking Christmas cookies. ;-)

no trick or treaters
we live at the end of the road and no one is down here

costume - i was a bear probably in 7th grade - my father had an old fuzzy coat - supposedly real camels hair - i made a bear mask of paper mache in art class

this month - i hope to finally make corn bread and stewed apples

1. Nope
2. Swabby Lou, pirate looking for love
3. The end of it

1. Did you get any trick or treaters last night? Yes, but they didn't knock on the door because I left treats out on a chair at the top of our front path. The bowl of treats was quite depleted by the end of the evening.

2. What is the most memorable costume you have ever worn? We didn't have Halloween in Australia for most of my life but my primary school used to hold a fancy dress ball every year. I don't remember most of my costumes (if I even attended every year) but one year my mother dressed me as a newspaper.

3. What are you looking forward to this month? The combined birthday party for my two granddaughters on Saturday.

I've been a vegan for over half my life and no one sent me a damn Vegan Day present.

1.No, but my apartment entrance is at the back of the house down a narrow alleyway. Most people would never think anyone lived there, much less anyone with candy.

2. In kindergarten I wore a box painted white with black dots on the sides. I was a die (half a pair of dice.)

3. My annual solitary viewing of V for Vendetta.

1) Nope. I shut off the porch light because all candy in this house belongs to me.

2) Nothing really worth mentioning.

3) Next paycheck.

1) Nope. I got candy all to myself!

2) I think my most memorable one was one I wore last year at a friend's Halloween party - I pinned a note above my shoe and called myself a footnote.

3) Thanksgiving :)

1. A few, but not a lot.

2. I was a witch last year, and that got a lot of compliments.

3. Baking treats

1. No, but I had candy just in case.

2. Nothing truly memorable.

3. The end of it.

1. Yes I did. It's the first time trick and treaters have turned up at my house. There were about eight kids in the group accompanied by three adults.

2. It's only been the last couple of years that Halloween has started to make inroads into Australia.

3. Hopefully getting the plaster cast off my arm

1. No. I live in the middle of nowhere.

2. Um, probably the Alien bursting from my chest.

3. Cornbread dressing. And eating out in ATL on Xmas shopping weekend.