Keeping It Lit

 There is something to be said for pulling an  event before someone else tells you have to.  

The Hallowe'en Candlelit Walk looked do-able for a while..the will was there...a fewer tickets, groups of 6 and under, more space .
..all options were explored  but it became hard to imagine the bustle of a mustering crowd without also seeing the possible cost. But the will was still there, and The Walk became a welcoming and responsible shuffle around the Gill, with throbbing LED mushrooms, music and projections , fire dancers,  displays like bright shrines in front of houses near the Mill, and  waxy sentinels watching from the trees.  

 I took the big witch for a cackling walk around town, provoking screams  from Chippy Bank Customers huddling in front of the carpet shop and an attempted good-natured piggyback launched from the alley at the side of Tesco. There were people around; I danced in Market Street with kids and parents and, at the bottom end of town, visited a circle of shadowscreens  around the roundabout at Tank Square, where heroic volunteers braved the wind with torches and backlighting. 

That's what it was about this year; keeping it lit. 

Glad we did it.

Video...the Gill Witch's territorial scurry,  early doors

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