If this is the season when ghosts take the air
what carnival spirits must they all appear
From graves deep in harlequin leaves they arise
to be greeted by bonfires and Catherine-wheel skies
In the candle-cast shadow they await eagerly
those tales told for equal parts terror and glee
From graves deep in harlequin leaves they arise
to be greeted by bonfires and Catherine-wheel skies
In the candle-cast shadow they await eagerly
those tales told for equal parts terror and glee
Hurray for Hallowe'en! Here is a recipe for my own witchy concoction. It looks vaguely like frog-spawn, and tastes like magic:
Green Stinger Cocktail
(makes two)
Non-alcoholic:
2 kiwis, peeled (no New Zealand jokes please)
juice of half a lime
2 parts ginger beer
3 parts orange juice
Pour ingredients into a blender, blend on high for several minutes till completely smooth.
Alcoholic:
2 kiwis, peeled
juice of half a lime
gin (depending on where you are on the alco-meter)
dilutable ginger cordial* (about 3 shot glasses)
orange juice (about a glass)
Blend till smooth
*I use Rock's Ginger cordial. This comes in a beautiful bottle and I also sometimes include it in hampers for friends. Here's a piccy of it. You can usually find it in health food shops, including Nourish if you're in Dublin.
A gorgeous thing I found online is this timeline of spooky words, courtesy of Oxford Dictionaries.
If you are preparing for an evening of story-telling by the fire, you can brush up on your Edgar Allen Poe and your Algernon Blackwood on this page of online ghost-stories.
BBC4Extra have their yearly cornucopia of deathless prose, including a series of MR James tales which starts today.
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