Truro's City of Lights
November can be one of the most miserable months of the year but around the third week into the month Truro’s ‘City of Lights’ festival lifts the gloom with a parade of glowing lanterns made out of tissue and withies.
Usually coinciding with the switch-on of the Christmas lights this small city comes alive with dance and music from local groups and bands. It’s a real community spirit with many schools taking part, not just from Truro but also from many villages around. Hundreds of school kids bring their lanterns and join up with the professionals who make some much larger creations.
This procession is not a competition to see who can build the biggest and best lanterns – just a simple and effective way for people of all ages to take part in the build up to the festive season – and leave the gloom behind. Wonderful!
Originally posted 2017-10-30 05:39:30.
It’s lovely. I hope they still do this.
No Shey. They stopped it a while ago. Probably around the time of Covid.
So many things didn’t come back. And some places were never the same. A great pity.
I fear the legacy of Covid still haunts us. Just look at how many pubs are closing up.
I know… Okay I look at places that we loved like the Clachaig and that shambles is also down to them not getting in the student folks from Europe who’d do a great job every summer season on the Boots Bar. But the rising costs of running places has gone through the roof. People also expect a service for that and not to stay in some grottsville dive for 220 a night. My cousin who retired as a very successful business man and known local architect, took on an empty shop where we used to live–an area with not the best puibs or restaurnants and really gave the public what was needed. It was more to set their daughter up than anything that they needed. Was doing really, really well, then Covid-and like whatever was said out there certainly up here–re support was not there. When they reopened the cost of heating and lighting and food and booze supply had rocketed. The sums he mentioned to me were eye watering and like that, cos it was more a hobby for them and one that was taking all their time, they packed up[ in the hope of selling the lease, cos they had gutted that whole place and turned in to something beautiful. But the backs of people in hospitality and several other ‘industries’ that are vital to an economy are being steadily broken with spiralling costs.
And not only that we’ve got a government in power that is only too ready to cut the drinking hours and introduce a minimum price to appease the Muslim brotherhood – not to mention knocking a dent in Tim Martin’s profits because he was a brexiteer.
Oh yes. When they should not be appeasing anyone. And up here it is worse actually. Another cousin’s wife who came to live here from down south was raging yesterday how it costs 10 quid more up here for a bottle of gin than over the border. AND none of it has stopped the deaths from drinking. These idiots up here even want to ban the signs on the Whisky Museum that say Whisky Museum. And also on breweries and wineries that are also open to the public for tours, tasting sessions and meals.
Bonkers Britain in action. It’s enough to make everyone turn to potcheen.
Abso. It is awonder we are not all raging alcoholics quite frankly.
LOL
This looks much more elaborate than the lantern processions in Germany, which traditionally happen on or about November 11 and are usually limited to quite small children around the age of 5.
It’s not a huge affair Don. The big Autumn carnivals are in Somerset which are really worth going to see.