[HPFGU-OTChatter] Halloween in England and stitching news

[Kathryn]

Oooh, that's a good point - I hould have thought of that. My aunt is head
mistress of a boarding school and her chaplian had a fit when she did a big
Halloween thing for the kids - really didn't like the fortune teller, which
since it was the art mistress dressed up and everyone knew it was just for
fun and she didn't claim to have any actual ability seemed a little ott, but
then he tried to get the HP books banned from the school too - until my aunt
pinned a newspaper article about the Archbishop of Canterbury saying the
books were good and dealt with the struggle between good and evil, to his
front door!

K
btw - email me details about the HP cross stitch book? I just finished a map
for my father which took 6 years and I'm looking for a new project,
preferably slightly smaller than the map!
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From: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Date: 09 July 2002 09:23:12
To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Halloween in England and stitching news
I live in Weston-super-Mare (no giggling in the back row, please), and I had

two lots of trick-or-treaters come by the house last October. One lot 
didn't count anyway, because they were our Young Guide Leaders who dropped 
by to say hello and sponge some candy ;) The other group of kids were 
preteen boys who didn't even have bags with them to hold their candy, so 
they didn't actually know what they were doing. I'd say it's catching on, 
but *very* slowly.

One thing to keep in mind is that many Christians here link Halloween with 
Paganism and, in extreme cases, Satanism. And I'm not talking just the "HP 
is Evil" brigade; I'm talking Church of England (some of their vicars 
anyway). While only 15% or so of the population are practicing Christians 
several people I know are uncomfortable with the whole idea of Halloween 
because for them it still holds spiritual significance of some non-Christian

sort. It will be a long while, I think, before it's seen as a fun, secular 
reason for dressing up in ridiculous costumes and consuming your own body 
weight in mini Mars bars.

Now on to the second topic of my post...

:::::bounces up and down with glee::::: This morning my lovely postman 
brought me the latest cross stitch pattern book I ordered. And yes, it's 
Harry himself, along with loads of other patterns, including alphabet 
samplers, the Sorting Hat, Snape (looking decidedly vampirish) and even 
several poses of Norbert. The book is WB and DMC approved so it's nice 
quality stuff. The book is French but that's no worry as the charts are 
very clear and are colour rather than symbol. If anyone wants more info 
about this email me privately and I'll gladly give you any info you need to 
order it for yourself.

Mary Ann
(happily deciding what she's going to stitch first)


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