{"id":14081,"date":"2020-10-22T14:55:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T13:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=14081"},"modified":"2020-10-22T15:11:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T14:11:32","slug":"things-are-starting-to-get-spooky-at-speedyreg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/2020\/10\/things-are-starting-to-get-spooky-at-speedyreg\/","title":{"rendered":"Things are Starting to Get Spooky at SpeedyReg!<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hallween at Spookyreg – Speedyreg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Was that a ghost I just saw? Oh no, that was just our director Des in a white shirt. Did a bat just fly past or was it Craig being naughty and throwing a paper aeroplane? Things are certainly becoming a little scary around here, and if anyone dares to mistake me for a pumpkin I\u2019ll certainly be turning into an angry witch and won\u2019t hesitate to turn everyone into frogs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ghoulish goings on will be happening here at the SpeedyReg <\/a>offices? Well we do love to go all out for Halloween. Our motley crew already resemble The Addams Family so we\u2019re halfway there but of course, there\u2019s plenty more Halloween fun to be had!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terrifying (or not so scary) pumpkins!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A pumpkin carving competition brings out the competitive spirit of the team. Many people think of Halloween as primarily an American holiday, but did you know that pumpkin carving actually started right here in Ireland? The story is a great one to tell on Halloween so do share it with your family. It all started with Stingy Jack, a notorious Irishman who tricked the devil for financial gain. Being a dodgy geezer, when Jack died, God wasn\u2019t keen on having him making heaven look untidy, so he refused to let him in. So off he went down to the devil where he rightly belonged. But, like elephants, the devil never forgets, and he remembered Jack was the trickster who scammed him, so the devil refused him entry to hell. With nowhere to go, Jack roams the earth for all eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now you don\u2019t want Stingy Jack turning up at your house do you? So to keep his evil spirit at bay, the key is to carve a Jack-o’-lantern. So you might be wandering how the Irish got hold of so many pumpkins, they\u2019re not so common in Ireland but in actual fact, the first Jack-o’-lanterns were made out of turnips, which actually probably look a lot scarier than a pumpkin! It was only when the Irish immigrants travelled to America that pumpkins became the norm as pumpkins were more readily available there than turnips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So yes, we\u2019ll all be carving pumpkins, or perhaps we\u2019ll go with turnips this year to keep things traditionally Irish? The results as always are bound to be mixed. Someone will go overboard and create an intricate pumpkin masterpiece, while others (naming no names but you know who you are) will submit a pumpkin with some random holes in it and tell us it\u2019s \u2018modern art\u2019, when in actual fact it simply went horribly wrong and they couldn\u2019t be bothered to try again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The perfect plates for Jacks \u2013 Stingy or otherwise!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If your name is Jack, we\u2019re sure you\u2019re much nicer than Stingy Jack and no on will ever have to carve vegetables to keep you at bay. So we think you deserve a lovely treat and we\u2019ve got two amazing JACK plates for you. How do you fancy JAC 11K<\/a> or JAC 111K?<\/a> Both these private number plates<\/a> are for sale right now. If you\u2019d like either or them then simply type JACK<\/a> into the search box on our website or just give us a call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crazy, creepy and kooky costumes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dressing up at Halloween is pretty much essential. In fact, I\u2019d go so far as to say that if ever I run the country, I\u2019ll bring in a law to make it compulsory. So just in case I ever get voted into office you need to have your Halloween costume ideas at the ready. Of course, you may also want a haunted* private plate to go with your costume so we\u2019ve picked out some suggestions for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, fancy donning a black leotard, tights, ears and a tail? Then you could be a Halloween spooky black witches cat and you can have the most amazing plate\u2026 CAT 1<\/a> or perhaps 22 CAT<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re going as a warty old witch, then you\u2019ll want a private plate for that broomstick that makes you stand out from the coven. How about W32 TCH<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For anyone who forgot to get their costume ready, there\u2019s always the old faithful \u2018cut a couple of holes in a bed sheet and call yourself a ghost\u2019 option. For you we\u2019ve got the terrifyingly spooky GHO 57Y<\/a> and GHO 557T.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gruesome goblins can pick out GOB 58N<\/a>, bloodsucking bats can have the brilliant 1 BAT<\/a> and we\u2019ve got a wide range of low priced ZOM plates<\/a> such as DO07 ZOM<\/a> and GO03 ZOM<\/a>, perfect for the undead!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy Halloween!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, we\u2019ll definitely be going all out to make Halloween fun this year and we hope you will too! Have a creepy, spooky, bloodcurdling, devilish, chillingly fantastic Halloween!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*We cannot guarantee that the number plate you purchase will actually be haunted. But it might be.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Was that a ghost I just saw? Oh no, that was just our director Des in a white shirt. Did a bat just fly past or was it Craig being naughty and throwing a paper aeroplane? Things are certainly becoming a little scary around here, and if anyone dares to mistake me for a pumpkin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":14082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[136,139,138],"tags":[1073,1808,847],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14083,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14081\/revisions\/14083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}