It is a giant Snakes and Ladders made out of pumpkins.
Very impressive.
Oh, no, sand is much worse because you start sinking all the way down.
J: OK! Hello!
C: Hii!
C: We've just come back from Slindon Farm where they had an amazing pumpkin display that they do every year.
This year it was Snakes and Ladders!
J: It was really awesome! But very--
C: They're not usually very Halloween-themed.
I think one year it was about the life boat.
The Sussex life boat
charity or something like that.
J: What are you gonna do?
It wasn't the easiest place to move around in a wheelchair.
Gravel - not your friend
in a wheelchair.
Or a buggy. There were ladies with buggies who were also struggling, so...
I felt less alone.
C: And it was a lot smaller than I thought, but it was really nice.
It had so many different varieties,
including...what was that one?
The blue banana?
J: Yes! The blue banana, which I quite want to try.
Okay.
C: Tilly's being very needy.
Oops, something else fell off!
Very spooky!
J: Yes, what could be making these things fall down?
Dun dun duuunn!
It's Tilly.
C: We were just saying that last year, Tilly was the same size as the pumpkin, and they were smaller pumpkins.
J: She was so little!
C: And now she's like, well--when she curls into a little ball, she's about the same size as the pumpkin, actually.
This pumpkin is heavier than Tilly.
J: Most things are heavier than Tilly.
C: So, I've already got my knife in my pumpkin.
Been taking the lid off it.
J: I remember last year this really hurt, so...
Ooh, this is quite good. This is quite a fresh one.
C: Be careful with your knife
C: Ta-daaa!
J: Oooo.
C: Do you wanna keep this bit? The stringy bit?
J: No, not the stringy bit.
C: Oh.
J: But the rest of it.
C: Do you know what? We need a bag to put all these bits in.
J: Yes.
C: It's very gruelly inside this, isn't it?
I can see why they're chosen for Halloween.
J: Have you decided what you're going to carve?
C: Yep.
J: Are you going to tell me or is it going to be a surprise?
C: Well, I will draw it onto the pumpkin first, so you'll see it then.
But it's going to be sort of autumnal-inspired
rather than Halloween.
J: Okay...
C: Yeah.
J: Claudia has a slight issue with scary things.
C: Yeah, I hate horror films and things.
There are enough scary, upsetting things in this world
to not watch movies made about killers and psychos and death.
Why watch it for entertainment? I'd rather watch a nice drama about someone's life, like a biopic or...
J: A love story!
C: Yeah, or a comedy.
J: Or a MARVEL film!
C: Yeah, or a comedy or a fantasy, or something
but not like a horror movie where the whole point of it is just to scare you.
You know things like Saw?
J: Yeah.
C: Where it's just like someone's put them into a--
they wake up and they've got some kind of helmet on their head
then they're like, "This is going to clasp shut into your face in thirty seconds unless you do this..."
It's like--well, I don't really get it.
J: Saw is just torture porn.
C: Yeah, torture porn, that's what it is.
J: Also, look, check it out: I have a pumpkin skirt!
C: Yay!
J: It's a skirt that looks like a pumpkin.
C: She put it on and I was like, "You look like a pumpkin!"
She was like, "That's the point!" I was like, "Oh, yeah!"
J: You can go to my blog right now
and I have some pretty good pumpkin recipes.
I've gotta say.
I've got a pie - a fish pie - that has pumpkin on top.
And I've got...pumpkin cupcakes.
Love those.
C: Did you get this for your 21st?
J: No, my mother did.
C: Oh.
Well, thank you.
I am using it to scoop out my pumpkin.
J: Ooo, nice.
J: This works much better, actually.
Why was I using a spoon before? This is much better.
C: Because your wife hadn't come up with the most ingenious idea of using a solid silver napkin ring.
That's why!
J: There we go, everyone.
Use your--use the good silver.
C: Yeah.
J: The napkin rings.
C: And my--what was that other thing on your finger?
My clever invention? The thing on your finger?
J: And a finger protector made up of a bit of kitchen towel and some tape
that says, "Fragile."
C: Yeah, because that finger is fragile.
J: Awww, it is!
J: I got a card. That was like--that was it.
C: I think I got, um... What did I get?
J: A party?
C: Yeah, I got a party.
J: Ah. I didn't get a party.
J: And I was like, "Parents, shouldn't you have cared more that I'm turning twenty-one?"
They're like, "Doesn't matter. That's American."
J: My hands started to hurt, so I'm just going to go straight to the chopping.
C: Stay there.
C: I'm not really feeling it.
J: No?
C: No.
C: I did a smiley face.
J: But that's cool, that's nice; it's smiling.
C: Yeah, it's not a scary face.
It's like, "Hello! Come!"
But I did start doing this autumnal theme, which was leaves and swirly wind sort of movements.
J: Well what happened to that?
C: It's really hard to get smooth lines.
It's easier to do jaggedy lines.
J: Yeah.
C: And I just got too tired
'cause I didn't want to go all the way through, either. I just wanted it to show through.
J: Do you want to go and watch Beauty and the Beast on Netflix?
C: Yes.
C: You look a bit like Belle.
J: Oh!
[crowd applauding and cheering]
[Sounds of menacing laughter]