Autumn is here, and it’s the season for foraging: find giant puffballs to fry or acorns for tiny floating candles. Plus Apple Day feasts, soul cakes for Halloween, Diwali on Trafalgar Square and more. 14 ideas to fill your October.
If your family's idea of a perfect summer Saturday involves giant bubbles, acrobats, science experiments and dancing on a hillside with all of London spread out below, Kaleidoscope Festival might be the day out for you.
It's a time for doing; harvesting apples, mushrooming, lighting Samhain fires and preparing for winter. Find ideas to fill your half-term and illuminate darker nights; eco-friendly Halloween costumes, welcoming simmer pots, Diwali crafts, raves for Deaf families and sparkling light festivals.
Is this the most quietly radical mainstream festival in the UK? We head to Wales with two teens in tow to find out. By Kate Hodges. Photographs: Jeff Pitcher.
September days are where the heat of summer meets the cool of autumn. Head out to forage a bumper crop of wild fruit and nuts, make a leafy Green Man for Mabon, transition to school with silly jokes and delicious packed lunches, and find joy in watching the pennies at the Festival of Thrift!
