The Hallowe’en costumes were getting looked out the last time St Johnstone lost a football match.
It was Tuesday, October 28 at Ibrox and a header from Rangers’ Lewis MacLeod four minutes from time knocked Saints out of the League Cup.
Since then, though, they had gone on a terrific run that has, finally, pushed them up into the top six as well as into the fifth round of the Scottish Cup.
After that setback in Govan, a home victory over Motherwell was followed by a creditable draw at Dundee and then they really started to power ahead.
Ross County were seen off in both league and cup in consecutive matches at McDiarmid, then they won the battle of the Saints in Paisley before this latest success at Kilmarnock.
Now Saints are looking to keep it going when the weekend’s shock losers Inverness Caley Thistle, thumped 4-0 at home by the other Jags from Partick, come calling on Saturday.
Win that one and it will be a very merry Christmas indeed for Saints and their supporters.
That would stretch their unbeaten run to seven and would really make the rest of the Premiership sit up and take notice.
It would show that a team which enjoyed last season so much may well be in for another pretty good campaign.