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A s'morey night in

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I've not posted in a few days because I've decided to try out a proper schedule, I'm going to post Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and see if that works well, Last week we checked off another item from our autumn bucket list. We had a cosy night in, making s'mores and popcorn and watching horror movies, wrapped up in blankets, the window open a little bit, and the candles lit. We re-watched IT because we loved it so much, and I got J to watch The Lost Boys, as he'd never seen it before. The Lost Boys is one of my all time favourite movies and "death by stereo" is one of my favourite quotes ever too. To make our s'mores we bought rich tea biscuits, I had vegan chocolate but J used nutella, then we toasted our marshmallows over the stove and piled it all together. I know I'm vegan/transitioning vegan, and that marshmallows have gelatine in, but I couldn't find any alternatives and really wanted this s'mores night. I figured a cheat day ...

Cute things to do in autumn - Go cinema to see IT 2 (a little review)

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Me and my boyfriend made friends earlier this year with another couple who really love the film IT, with the buildup of the new film being released this year, we too got excited about it and decided to give it a watch. Me and J aren't big horror film fanatics, I like to watch a few come this time of year just to feel spooky and cosy, but finding a good horror film is so hard because I find they generally lack strong storylines, overuse gore to try and scare audiences, and use build ups as their main scare feature that then let's me down come the end when the reality of the film isn't actually that scary. After watching the first IT I felt that it had really captured what a good horror movie should be, it was paced very well, had a really good build up of scary moments and the end scene was incredible. I loved the fact that the characters never seemed to become "heroes" it felt very realistic with the way the group dealt with Pennywise instead of them suddenly k...