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Loved reading this and JP and can’t believe it was 5 years ago when you’re incredible pumpkin display took Instagram styling to another level 🤣

Continue to be utterly fabulous. As you’re absolutely right ordinary just doesn’t suit you! 🤎

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🤣🤣 totally peaked too soon though! Should have started with ten and worked up!

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You are the Pumpkin King, JP! Just “pumpkinlicious!” (Your word 🤔🤣🎃)

I am a bit traditional when it comes to Autumn decor - ie new cushions at a push- so all these pumpkins are pushing me out my comfort zone ( terribly British here!) BUT I love seeing yours and I shall forever have the sight of you seemingly naked in your bath surrounded by pumpkins in my mind!! Loved those days on Insta and I loved reading this as ever!

PS hope you’re feeling better?

X

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You might get another chance to see me in the bath Sophie! 🙄😳🎃🤣 Feeling much brighter thank you. X

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To me you'll forever be the Pumpkin King.

The lent gourd - for a moment I thought that was some kind of religious rite involving a pumpkin.

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🤣 I did think that when I wrote it, but decided to leave it in. Hope I raised a smile this morning Jo.

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Definitely...... I'd love to have seen a timelapse video of that massive installation...

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Your wish will be my command shortly Jo! 🎃

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Oct 18Liked by JP Clark

What a wonderful eye for design and beauty you have!

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Thank you so much Michelle

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Oct 16Liked by JP Clark

You and those pumpkins….. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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🤣🎃

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Oct 16Liked by JP Clark

Ha ha I was never offended by the OG post - I know most of the stuff we see on insta isn't real, and I'm sure you fessed up at the time about the pumpkin loan. Keep being gloriously over the top you!

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I did indeed fess up Carole. Thanks darling. Xxx

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🎃Once again an enjoyable and entertaining read JP! 😍

In my home we go right from Halloween into Thanksgiving Month, so the pumpkins and Fall (Autumn) decor stays around until the evening of Thanksgiving dinner, the third Thursday of November!🦃 A lovely four day bank holiday weekend kicks off Christmas! Normally in my home the Christmas tree and decorations are waiting on standby in the garage, ready to explode on the scene!

Unless I’m just so excited to start up for Christmas and New Year’s festivities and the Christmas magic takes over me and the decorating begins before Thanksgiving! I have NO self control!🫣🤭🙄😂

🎄🧑🏻‍🎄🤶🏻🥂🍾🪵🔥🎁💸

BTW if I’m not hosting a Thanksgiving dinner, I start Christmas madness the first of November!😝😘

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🤣🤣 I love that about you Chriss and I bet all the festivities are amazing at your house!

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Oct 15Liked by JP Clark

Omg, I'm not made to be ordinary either. 😂

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You definitely are not Mary! 🤣🤣

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Oh, Xavier/JP - where does the one end and the other begin?!

You’re an inspiration - I used to buy one (one!) pumpkin for Hallowe’en. Now it’s up to 8 (real, wicker and paper) simply for display as soon as autumn beckons.

And Lent Gourd really should be added to the festivals calendar …

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Jekyll and Hyde for sure Heather. Eight is pretty damn good. I’m impressed!

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Pleased to be part of the 3% Canadian contingent. We’re a tiny but mighty group, I imagine. A fun read this morning (on Canadian Thanksgiving no less!)

Your evil twin will be horrified to learn that 1) my beautiful fall wreath of colourful leaves received a complaint from some autumn bah humbug and my condo board ordered me to take it down; 2) two (maybe three?) Halloweens ago there was major pumpkin shortage, no joke, and we were forced to go dumpster diving at the local high school for their cast offs. Competitive autumning is not for the weak.

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Happy Thanksgiving Erin! 🦃 How mean of your condo board: “no fun allowed”. Dumpster diving, that’s a new one on me, but I’d do it if I had to!

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Luckily for us it was just piles of whole, uncarved pumpkins, and maybe a few maple leaf streamers. If it was the cafeteria bin, the pumpkins would stay precisely where they were.

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🤣🤣

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You are indeed a GD fabulous IG pumpkin legend! I aspire.

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🤣🤣 I’ll tell my twin!

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Oct 13Liked by JP Clark

Perfect

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Thank you Lisa xx

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Hahahahaha ! Are you straight out of the hammer house of horrors ? How rude ! But I like it ! You are the king of excessive styling, you certainly caught my eye and made me sit up straight during lockdown… my Mohican may be gone but my prickles still prickle ! Love you Jp , this is so damn arrogant it’s genius X

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🤣🤣 remember it’s my twin brother, not me! It just thought it was fun to be someone else for a change, someone far less nice! I purposely made it ridiculously arrogant to be able to write the things I would never write.

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Yes but I like it 😂😂 I’m joining your brothers gang … he’s far more dangerous 👀 but not to be trusted ! 😂 great read . Very clever Xx

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Definitely not to be trusted Nic! He’s a devil! 🤣🩷

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Oct 13Liked by JP Clark

Hillarious 😂, thank you from one of your measley stylistically inept peasants! Seriously note though! Crickey you must have pumpkin nightmares come July! Xx

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🩷🤣 please just remember that was my brother talking! Luv ya Louise! I do indeed think what the hell am I going to do each year!

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Oct 13Liked by JP Clark

Love ya too! I think you need a lush holiday full of pampering to get the creative juices flowing! 😜

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You know you do! To be fair, I’m actually on a holiday at the moment, but I’m still working! First day off tomorrow. 🤣🩷

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Oct 13Liked by JP Clark

Aww fantastic! Well you must stop working and enjoy the rest! Very well deserved xx

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Thanks darling

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Can I just say what a joy it is to have a wider readership, people not just from the country we live in. It's one of the things I love best about here - the global connection! Thank you as ever JP, I'm enjoying your words more each week and I love them at the start

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P.s: I do hope my dreadfully rude evil twin wasn’t too mean!

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Isn’t it an absolute joy Mark. Substack has opened up so many new doors to a wider world. Thank you so much for your kind words.

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That's good to hear JP. x

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👍🏻👍🏻

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