Tonight, we'll spend All Hallows' Eve in a small river village, where a gentle schoolmaster helps with the last apple pressing and walks home by lantern light with friends.
In Linden Vale, Silas carves turnip lanterns with the village children while they tell him about the lantern rider, who lights late travellers home. Then the school walks down to Orchard End, where old Mabel shows him the apple press and the miller plays slow tunes on his fiddle. Nothing much happens. The juice runs gold, the lanterns glow along the barn beams, and a few friends walk home together under the full moon.
This is a cosy Halloween, not a scary one: candlelight, apples and a kind old story, told in a calm, slow voice. The story and the sleep affirmations last about 40 minutes, and soft, warm music carries on after that for about three hours in all, so you can drift off without touching your phone. At 11 minutes the screen fades to black, so the room stays dark while you sleep.
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