Tuesday, 28 October 2025
Soir macabre
Saturday, 25 October 2025
All Hallows Graveyard
Friday, 24 October 2025
"Le fantôme citrouille"
Thursday, 23 October 2025
Jack au cimetière, au crépuscule
Sunday, 19 October 2025
Danse Macabre
Thursday, 16 October 2025
Zombie
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
Cimetière
Saturday, 11 October 2025
Vampires, sorcières, zombies, etc.
Thursday, 25 September 2025
September Witches
Saturday, 26 October 2024
L'Halloween à Chicoutimi
Thursday, 24 October 2024
Wednesday, 11 October 2023
Le hérisson de l'Halloween
Saturday, 22 October 2022
Nouvelle tasse de l'Halloween
Friday, 14 October 2022
Décorations gonflables d'Halloween
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
L'Halloween sur le Plateau
Sunday, 10 October 2021
This year's Danse Macabre
As it is a tradition during the Halloween season, I am sharing a version of the Danse macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns. This particular one is a bit truncated unfortunately, but I loved the story and narrative so much that I wanted to share it. It is both sweet and spooky, with a violin playing friendly ghost, a black cat, witches and Satan himself. In a creepy old cemetery. It's just perfect.
Sunday, 4 October 2020
And now for some Danse Macabre
As it is a tradition on this blog during the countdown Halloween I share on this blog a version of the Danse macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns. I decided to do it on early in the month and on the stroke of midnight, for dramatic effect. To accompany this post, some decoration from a nearby farm, which my wife and Wolfie visited back in October 2018. As for the Danse itself, I found this old animated version recently. Not very animated, but the images are simply gorgeous in theie eeriness. I never get bore of this tune and I am amazed at how inspiring it has been over the years.
Saturday, 19 October 2019
Le chat qui a plusieurs noms
J'ai blogué ici sur cette tasse que j'ai achetée, avec en plus un petit chat noir en peluche pour l'Halloween. Or, il semblerait que, si la tasse indiffère petit loup jusqu'ici, il s'est pris d'une affection inattendue pour le chat. Je dis inattendue, car mon fils n'est pas très porté sur les peluches jusqu'ici. Il n'est pas très affectueux envers les toutous qu'il a, leur préférant ses tracteurs, voitures, trains et camions. Mais celui, pour une raison qui m'échappe encore, il l'aime beaucoup. L'ennui, c'est qu'aucun nom n'arrive jusqu'ici à lui "coller" à la peau. Mon fils l'appelle tantôt Gizmo, tantôt Dodo, à d'autres moments simplement "Cat". Il a même parfois utilisé "Dougie"(?). J'imagine qu'il est normal qu'un chat ait plusieurs noms, mais rarement du même propriétaire.
Sunday, 13 October 2019
Witches Brew (and a cat)
For tonight's countdown to Halloween post, I present you my new favourite mug. Sometimes, I am a sucker for silly things. Anyway, we went to Tesco yesterday for food shopping and we spent a good deal of time in the Halloween section, where Wolfie and I had a ball. They were selling lots of things, including this Halloween mug, with this cute little plush black cat. The mug is nothing original, the image on it shows a graveyard with jack o'lanterns and it's written Witches Brew on it, as you can see. Wolfie wanted it for the cat (although he is not that much into soft toys) and I wanted it for the mug. So we got it. Now I drink every non alcoholic drink I can in this and Wolfie has a new cuddling toy. We need to give a name to this cat, by the way. Any suggestions, please put them in the comments.











