Marie love lanterns! Butterfly and Rain bow coloured; especially the round balls of lights popping up and down as the kiddos parade around the garden..creating their own little fairyland of lights . What a joy to see them enjoying the simple pleasures of life, the lanterns, young parents fussing around their kids......sounds of playful shrieks and screams -all the hee hee! ha! ha! ha! , the coaxing, the carefullllllllll. (that 's from the parents) .. do you smell something burning??? (that's from the grandmas' camp) ......Oh Dear! it's one of the pretty lanterns and it had just breathe its last !!!! Now....where is the leader of the evening...the little uncle??? the oldest child always gets the honour to lead the merry band of festivers! No , not quite the moon cake festival. yet......but the joy, the love and the season of lanterns are already in the air....My siblings held a little get-together for the kids last night and... the kids loved it ! And , of course .it brought back fond memories of this writer's own lantern days.....
Us,kids of yesteryears go for tin lanterns (made from discarded Milo and milk tins, pasted with our own preference of water colours ) ..... finger sized colourful candles, which does not blow out easily, long lasting.....and the blaze of lights that shone through the strips we cut around the tins gave out quite a glow!! Ten, twenty , thirty kids and you have a magical ring of lights and merry laughters! In the dark of night , that is quite a sight to behold! Ah! those were the days....
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