So on Wednesday, I headed out east to meet a dear little friend.
Unbeknown to us, the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden had been invaded.
A pumpkin invasion!
“Take us to your leader!”
Some of the orange aliens were really quite cheeky.
“Blaaaaaaaaah!”
There were cat pumpkins …
Marmalade cat
… Denis Healey pumpkins …
What fancy eyebrows!
… and an obligatory Trumpkin (obviously).
“Make Halloween great again!”
Shedfuls of pumpkins!
Or perhaps it’s an interstellar pumpkin transportation device.
Can you spot my favourite pumpkin?
One of these things is not like the others …
We wandered through the pumpkin-strewn garden …
… then time to defend ourselves against a Pumpkin Death Star!
“This pumpkin is fully operational.”
That adventure inspired Ted to carve a pumpkin today, as two more favourite pumpkins were coming for Halloween tea:
Halloween tangerines
<3 its Voldemort nose.
We had Nigella’s Lily’s scones with homemade blackberry jam (this recipe) and whipped cream; a pumpkin spice magic cake (I just added a teaspoon of pumpkin spice to this recipe); and cucumber, ham and cheese sandwiches.
The Halloween tangerines went down incredibly well.
So did the scones.
“Please can I have another one, just with CREAM?”
Then after some early fireworks, as Zebedee says, it was time for bed.
I hope you had a lovely weekend too.
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