Halloween Google Doodle – 31 October 2010
Today has been the Feast of All Hallows – commonly known outside the Church as Halloween. To mark the occasion, a series of five Google Doodles were produced, and a YouTube Doodle was made by a third-party graphic designer who’s on YouTube himself.
It’s big in the US, where they were expected to spend £3.7bn on the ‘holiday’, dwarfing the UK’s expected £0.28bn. The festival now out-sells Valentines’ Day and Mothers’ Day, making it the third biggest money-spinning opportunity in the UK calendar (after Christmas and Easter).
This year, we haven’t had nearly so many ‘trick-or-treaters’ as in previous years, which surprised me. I thought that – because it is the end of the half-term holiday, a weekend, and mainly dry weather – there’d have been more calls on the doorbell. Still, that can only be a good thing – all the more sweets for me!
Next year, I’ll explain my hate for trick-or-treating, but until then a summary tweet:
“ANNOYING SELFISH BEGGING CHILDREN ringing my doorbell and trick-or-treating. Don’t they realise I have a chemistry test to hand in tomorrow?”
