Halloween

Well, I got the candy in but I didn't have any takers, any trick or treaters.   I did go to the movies just before 7.30, but I don't think I missed them, I think they would have come earlier, before dark, if they were going to.    They probably go round the better neighbourhoods.   So - oh dear - I will have to eat the candy myself.

 

I don't like Halloween, I never have, so I am glad it is over, but they make a big thing of it over here, dressing up, decorating the front gardens and the stores do a roaring trade in HUGE bagfulls of candy, and costumes.

 

The movie I went to see downtown was 'The Visit'.  It was on in one of the main cinema complexes for quite a while and I'd kept debating whether to see it or not because it was billed as a mystery and suspense.

 

 It was alright - better than 'Steve Jobs' but it was very weird and I don't think I would recommend it to anyone, but it did keep me engaged trying to figure it out.    And as anyone married to me would testify, if a film isn't straightforward I need  constant explanations on what is happening, and who is who.    Fortunately, when I got home I found a very good website which gave a  detailed, day by day account of all that happened.   So now I know what it was all about.

 

I doubt if anyone reading this plans to see it, so I will tell you it is about two children sent to visit their grandparents they have never met because their mother was estranged from them.   The grandparents are WEIRD - but it transpires near the end that they are not really their grandparents, but two patients from a mental hospital who have murdered the real grandparents and put their bodies in the basement.  The children get hold of their mother on Skype, who sees the pseudo grandparents and rushes to the scene with  cop cars, and lights flashing, and all ends well.   But one would think, in reality, the children would go home extremely traumatised and need years of counselling to get over it all. 

 

The dust has been settling following the Presidential Debate, and Rubio seems to have done very well.  It was announced this evening that a billionaire has come forward donating millions to his campaign.  

 

Jeb Bush is not doing at all well.   He criticised Rubio at one point in the Debate for his attendance record at the Florida Senate where he had missed votes because he was campaigning, and asked Rubio if he was adopting the French working week of three days.  Unfortunately the French ambassador was watching the Debate, he was very irate and complained to the Republican party.  So that hasn't helped Jeb.

 

Sadly, I won't be able to see the next Debate, it is on a channel I don't get with my basic tv package, but I guess I'll get to hear the main points.