'Tis the merry month of October and Hallow'en will soon be upon us. Even we oldies who haven't been out guising in many a long year are not immune to its unique charms, and can yet remember the Hallowe'ens of our youth with fond nostalgia. I remember having a cardboard YOGI BEAR mask, purchased from WOOLWORTHS (actually I had two; one in 1963/'64 and again in 1966), and I'd love to be able to get my hands on another one some day. (Unlikely I know, given the inherent fragility of the item.)
Anyway, I was digging through the files recently and, much to my surprise, discovered a photocopy of the original pencil version of my FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER portrait from the early '80s. Regular readers of this blog will have already seen the inked and cropped incarnation of this drawing, but the pencilled portrait has its own charm and is of sufficient interest in its own right to merit an outing here.
So, just imagine...you hear a chapping at your front porch. Grabbing a few apples and some monkey nuts, you prepare to endure yet another rendition of 'three wee witches on the green' as you open the door and are confronted - not by a gaggle of giggling guisers - but by the image above, looming at you out of the fog.
And if that thought doesn't cure you of your constipation, then nothing will.
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