"she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled" - the Bible

I was going to say "Happy Halloween to all of my US readers"...but a trip around the web suggests that Halloween...and its attendant excess of candy and adult costumes prefaced by the word 'sexy'...has migrated across the globe...so this is now just a general Hallows' Eve greeting (and a chance to showcase my rather useless pumpkin carving skills).