"So, they teamed up with the Pumpkin Growers Society and urged children to knock on their neighbours’ doors, saying 'Give me some money or I’ll vandalise your car.'"

Continuing his rant about old tales that tie in with the spooky celebration, he relished in the fact that coronavirus has saved him the trouble of dealing with anyone this year. "The

good news is that if the current UK regulations are still in place on October 31, I will be able to watch a boxset without having to answer the front door every three minutes so I can tell a

bunch of scruffy urchins to b****r off," he snapped. "It’s the first real upside of this whole Covid business."