If yer witchn' this Halloween, don't text and fly!

Halloween! We can't believe it’s the end of October already, but for us no worries as our granddaughters are in constant reminder mode.

Some believe Halloween originates from the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain (summers end) while the Gaels believed that it was a time when the walls between our world and the next became thin and porous, allowing spirits to pass through, to come back to life on the day and damage crops.

Today, modern consumerism with a heady mix of candy-binging culminates a month-long ritual of planning, shopping, and decorating with lots and lots of plastic.

The phrase trick-or-treat was first used in America in 1927, with the traditions brought over to America by immigrants. Guising gave way to threatening pranks in exchange for sweets.

Costumes became more adventurous - in Victorian ages, they were influenced by gothic themes in literature, and dressed as bats and ghosts or what seemed exotic, such as an Egyptian pharoah. Later, costumes became influenced by pop culture, and became more sexualised in the 1970s.

Tricken' and treatin' on Hallowween? If so have fun and if you are witchin', no textin' while flyin'.