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My child’s Halloween horror story – at Bunnings

Cherie Gilmour Freelance writer October 27, 2025 — 3.30pm

The other day, I was ducking into Bunnings with my four-year-old to grab some potting mix when we saw her: dark empty eyes, skeletal arms and wispy grey hair. It wasn’t another mum of small children, though that’s usually an apt description – speaking for myself at least.

It was a Halloween display at the entrance, a ghoulish skeleton holding a chain and covered in spiderwebs, snarling with its dead eyes at passersby.

My son gazed wide-eyed as I quickly ushered him past. “What’s that, Mummy?” he asked with a tremor in his voice. “Is it a skullet?” (Translation: skeleton.)

Thanks Bunnings, I thought. We’d only just got him out of our bed and bac

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