Autumn's here!

Except, of course, here it is called fall. Presumably because the leaves fall off the trees, or something. With autumn comes the eerie wonder that is Halloween. In Canada, it seems that everybody loves halloween, with its possibilities for conning people out of large amounts of confectionery and standing strange scarecrows outside your house, ie:

I tell you, they don't half give me a fright when walking home of an evening. Especially the ones that don't have any legs and seem to be a ghastly, pitiful human-terracotta hybrid.