EVENT REPORT — what's on in the kingdom.
The lantern walk is back, and the village could not be happier about it.
One slow evening loop, lanterns lit, no hurry at all: up Mill Lane, around the square, past the bakery (which stays open late for the occasion), and home again by the long way, under whatever sky the night provides. Walkers swap stories as they go. Nobody is in charge, which is part of the charm.
The organizers suggest bringing a lantern — spares will be handed out at the square for anyone who forgets — and bringing someone small, if you have someone small to bring. Grandparents, the notice says pointedly, make excellent lantern-walk companions, and the young ones will love spotting the fire-rings overhead: great rings of golden fire, drifting high and slow, keeping pace with the walkers like quiet guests.
It ends, as all good evenings should, with hot drinks and one more story, told properly, before bed.
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