I still remember turnips instead of pumpkins
You could carry them round. I also recall my mate Harry managing to get a banger into a kid's turnip which promptly exploded, leaving him holding the string and the lid
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 11:45, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

turnips were well hard to carve
but yeah, I remember people carrying them on strings in parades. Ah, it were better in the days before they invented pumpkins
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 11:46, Reply)

I don't think we ever had turnips down here.
Off the top of my head, I can't think of a more stereotypically povvo Northern image.
( Kroney, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 11:46, Reply)

no, you are just too young

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 11:47, Reply)

I'll ask me mum, but I'm pretty sure she'll slap me across the head and tell me off for encouraging the peasantry

( Kroney, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 11:48, Reply)

I stuck wine gums in the eyes of mine to make them red

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 11:50, Reply)

Not my peasants

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 11:50, Reply)

we all know you mean your cock

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 11:55, Reply)

You leave my purple headed warrior out of this

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 11:56, Reply)