Halloween, eh?

Pursuant to the Geneva Convention -
     This year the small ragged children coming to beg for comestibles are not to be hurled into the lower dungeons of BOOJUM! mansion to keep company with the walsprots, plappergeists and snarks amid the bones of last years beggars. 

The airy upper dungeons, with occasional sunlight, some rainwater and plenty of moss

Q.  What do you call His Highness of Halloween?
A.  Pumpking.

More of Pumpkins
     May I present to you the carving skills of Wonder Wife:

Wide angle shot


A rather better contrast shot
 

There you go, what a bit of ingenuity and a sharp knife can do.  Don't go away now, there is more.  What did Conrad do with the extracted* flesh?  Why I put it in a pie.  A cheesecake, actually.

Still cooling so still in tin

Since I have now completed my jury service, I'll be taking this into work tomorrow for the charity scoff, much to Darling Daughter's displeasure as she fondly if a little naievely expected just stick her face into it, solo**.

 Q. What does a camel eat at Halloween?
A. Humpkin

Battleships again
     This is the USS Zumwalt, actually a destroyer and thus much smaller than a battleship, but I have to keep the strained analogy going:

At the helm, Captain Kirk.  Yes, really!

The prow struck me as curious, since battleships of a century ago had a similar convex hull shape.  In their case it was a "Torpedo bulge" intended to prevent those sinister submarine weapons from breaching the hull.  The hull above - well, who knows ...

Q. How do aristocrats celebrate Halloween?
A. With a Pompkin

Back to Battleships
     Only the paper version:

Before

This is the first puzzle I got utterly lost on.  Having gotten rid of the pencil scrawl, I am going to have another go.  Look for results tomorrow.

*Pumpkin flesh.  Pumpkin!  and definitely not human.
** If this was a banoffee pie she would indeed scarf the whole thing, solo.

Pub Quiz beckons - I now have to go trawl tabloid tat newsites, for vapid celebrity gossip about people I don't know doing things I don't care about for reasons I don't like.  O the hardship!