The businessmen called late on Wednesday night and told us if we didn't carve spooky halloween pumpkins we'd be fired!!!

The craving pumpkins cost £1 a piece from Asda Wallmart and were of incredibly poor quality but it didn't matter because we will slice them into things of beauty yet!

James's's's pumpkin was tall like the heads on easter island

Matthew's pumpkin was shorter but not without its charms!

The first cut is the deepest ahahaha!! Sheryl Crow™®®®

EEEWWWWW.

To our horror the pumpkin was full of brains and such.

To make matters worse, James' pumpkin handle was difficult to grip/impossibly to open. The office task was cancelled shortly after this picture was taken.

Matthew used a tried and tested spoon scooping method to remove the slime and brains from his pumpkin.

James was an unorthodox Audrey using a stirring and tipping method IT WORKED VERY WELL AND SAVED TIME.

James' pumpkin was immediately empty.

Matthew was not so lucky.

Once both the pumpkins were emptied to regulation standards it was time to decide what horrifying ghoul we would carve into our respective pumpkins!

Matthew stole a cat design off an internet web design service.

Unfortunately the internet isn't real and a printing plotter was required to bring the design into physical space

Unfortunately the printing plotter had no A4 whitesheets so a block of A4 whitesheets had to be christened

The printer was gently stroked for luck

And away it went!!

If you remember James' pumpkin was tall like easter island but Matthew's was not!! This design was far too big OH NO!!

That's alright there were enough A4 whitesheets to have another attempt

Matthew used tiny scissors to prolong the excitement of the evening. Imagine if the task was over, how boring!!

Meanwhile James was considering designs of his own in a more primitive Sharpie™®®® on A4 whitesheet style. His first idea was too spooky to continue! Triangular eyes aargh!

Matthew came to the painful realisation that his new stencil was too small and James had drawn on the big one, oh no! Another A4 whitesheet it is! If the businessmen find out how many of their A4 whitesheets we've used they'll be FURIOUS and office task cancelled.

The new larger stencil had an attempt at vapourising the room but it's no darlick oh no!

Matthew applied moisture to the cat face to effectively wrap what was effectively a flat whitesheet to what is effectively a rounded pumpkin shape!

Meanwhile James was thinking about foxes and how they are orange and pumpkins are orange. And suddenly he had drawn a fox on his pumpkin in sharpie™®®® and biro™®®® the natural waxiness of the pumpkin was nothing but a hinderance but a hinderance that was overcome through hard work and dedication.

Meanwhile Matthew carefully pierced his cat face into his pumpkin with the tiny scissors again, the businessmen say you can't buy scissors of such size but I guess we showed them ahahaha!

SUCCESS.

Meanwhile James stabbed his fox

A cat's ears are triangular but pushing a triangle out of a pumpkin is another story!

James was busy dealing with little fox foots! The sliminess of the knife illustrates the sliminess of the whole process.

It wasn't long before a fox shape was excavated but where are his little fox foots! Oh well.

The fox carving was arguably complete! Note the flimsy and dangerous nature of the tail area. This poses an obvious health hazard but we won't tell the businessmen this time!!

Matthew was preparing to tackle those magnificent bunlips. If he screws this up the office will burn to the ground

SUCCESS!!!

Matthew had carved a stunning cat face.

T-lites were required to create the spooky glow we'd worked so hard for. Fire is dangerous and you should always call 999 before lighting any candles in the home.

They were stunners.

Absolute stunners.

On this occasion we did not burn the office to the ground! The businessmen will be pleased. I hope you enjoyed this short but eventful office task. It was a rewarding experience but I am very glad it's over anyway as it was very tiring work!!

Matthew decided to add whiskers.

It was a stunner.

They were absolute stunners.

Stunning bunlips.

At first I was wary of the whiskers, but I soon came to love them and I'm sure you will too.

Goodbye.