All Saints Day & Day Of The Dead

Today is All Saints day, everything is shut so that people can go to the cemetery to have a chat and remember the dead, plastic flowers are exchanged for newer plastic flowers, marzipan sweets and deep fried dough fritters stuffed with cream and chocolate are scoffed with Aniseed liqueur.

Tomorrow is the Day of the Dead, ( originally an Aztec custom) around the world people take dead relatives from their graves, dress them up and have a party.

I dont have any dead relatives and would feel awkward gate crashing someones cemetary party, If I dig up my cat and dressed it in a tinfoil suit and served some tuna sandwiches would that be seen as something bad?
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Tuna sandwiches sound just purr-fect love
Yes they are, but should they be called tuna fish sandwiches like chicken bird sandwiches etc?
Whats up with your profile Mimi?, It wont do, you cant just do that sort of thing.hug
She's changed her hair, before it was straight and now its curly.
Here, people make a special effort to go to clean up the graves of their loved ones, and sit and chat too.
Real flowers and plants are used here more than plastic ones though, and there is no special food.
I do remember reading an article once on, I think National Geographic, where they party with the dead as you described.
It sounds a little macabre to me, but to each their own. Whatever makes one feel more at peace with losing loved ones is ok with me.
Molly, I was a bit rude about the flower thing, the plastic flowers are used today but tomorrow they will place real flowers on the graves, Id say the plastic are simply to last all year, they melt though.
Sorry Map i saw in Germany what you could call beautiful grave yards well attended. I know old lady who went to her hubbies grave with wheelbarrow and garden plants just to keep his garden nice she said, this indeed give her comfort.

Also lines and lines of soldiers war graves Malta, Belgium, all beautifuly kept and because family could only visit once in a life time left plastic rose so as Molly says each to his own.
Reddy, why you sorry?

Our local cemetery isnt really lines of gravestones, most are in family Crypts so not much space for plants...I was going to say something about fridge magnets on the crypt doors but that would have been disrespectful and besides they are made out of marble and wouldnt stick.
Mappy i meant i am sorry for you
Sorry I dont have any dead relatives?...That's nice of you, thanks.
Your a lucky mappy then are'nt you
Reddy I certainly am, I come from a very small family of just one or two.

Besides any dead relatives are in the wilds of Africa, here in this town, none, just a cat and a few snails I murdered earlier.
map....dig your cat up......and make a hat from his hair...this way...he,ll always be with you, when you wear it...............waves.......
Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) is celebrated in every

country in Latin America, or so I thinkconfused
tru, good idea, will do!cheers

Duro, Yes Id say most of South America celebrate day of the dead, those Aztecs started something weird.
when I passed I would be crematedcool much better
I never had an urge to grieve on the cemetery. Nothing's there.

All Saints day?...... I don't bother now, let alone when i'm gone.
Duro, good idea, no need to clog up the ground with a big box.

Bloody, I dont bother either, I was just bandwagoning on the dozens of Halloween blogsgrin
All my dead relatives are elsewhere, I feel very unrooted moping
Biffy, You have put down new roots, just remember those that are far away.
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