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I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Halloween. I loved it as a kid, dressing up and going around my estate, knocking on doors, and getting free chocolate; what’s not to like? All the chat in the weeks leading up to it about who you were going to be that year. Michael J Fox, from Back to the FutureMichael Jackson, ET, Indiana Jones, a character from Ghostbustersor an old reliable witch.We ghouls and goblins even ventured into neighbouring estates, driven demented by visions of chocolate.Sometimes, we went too far, and like a scene from Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Seawe had to carefully navigate our way back without being hopped (Cork slang for beaten up and robbed) for our bag of treasure. It required delicate planning.October is a magnificent month. The smoke from chimneys,...