A Band of Peg-Toothed Squashes

Crunchy nut cornflakes.

Sometimes it is quite necessary for a group of adults to get together and carve pumpkins. Pumpkins are a good deal easier to carve than turnips. Not of course that there can be much debate on the matter.

Like any good Scot, the humble turnip was the chosen Jack O'Lantern vegetable in my guising days. One spent hours hollowing out the damn things, risking loss of digits as one did so, before even getting down to the business of carving a likeness. Once satisfied with your gnarly creation, you would thread it with string and tote it about, followed everywhere by the stench of turnip.

The merry band of pumpkin friends we carved out today are a good deal less pungent, and rather splendid (though we do says so ourselves).