His and Hers

Padraig the Pumpkin observes his cooked insides; not a similar ability given to us mere humans.
Although delicious, this pie is quite an eat for just two of us, and so if any of you are interested in sharing what remains, would you make an orderly queue outside the door and the butler will serve you a sliver, with cream on top of course.

It would seem that Padraig has been a rather premature Halloween pumpkin and may not survive until the night of ghoulies and ghosties on the 31st; in fact he might well be a 'has been pumpkin' by then. He is becoming a tad squidgy.

As he nears his end, the lines of William Dunbar may be uppermost in what the resident sculptor left of his brain - Timor Mortis Conturbat Me.

It seems that the south of England has had quite a thrashing from this early morning's storm and thousands of homes are left without electricity and four people have died.
While life will return to normal for most, for others it will never be the same again.
Nature is cruel.