For anyone who didn’t get the reference in the title, Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain are classic children’s books set in a fantasy land inspired by Welsh folklore. They’re very much on my mind because I just wrote a paper on them.
Cardiff does not resemble Prydain. Not even in the slightest.
But Bute Park is beginning to. Everything is in bloom. Half the population of South Wales seemed to be picknicking on the lawn today. (Needless to say, I spent our first day of Welsh summer reading in an air-conditioned coffeeshop, but that’s another post.)
Do you, or do you not, expect the Fair Folk to step out of the foliage?:
