31 Days of Halloween: Day 3

Yay! Day 3 of Halloween month! More festive shenanigans!

Halloween Soup

I made this yesterday. It's Beetroot and Red Pepper with a touch of ginger and surprise fusilli.

Library Visit

I went over to Abraham Moss today. Partly to have a nosy at the new library, and partly to look for some more Halloween reading. Score! I found Grady Hendrix, Anna Mazzola, Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Joël Dicker!

Halloween Cookies

Carrying on its famed disregard for the calendar, the Spar Shop near me has completely bypassed Halloween. Think you can best me with your Christmas displays? Ha! I will run around your shop like Challenge Anneka until I find some sort of snack with an orange and black label. You're not getting away with not selling me something tonight, Spar Shop.

31 Halloween Films: The Thing

The next film on our Halloween list... John Carpenter's The Thing.

31 Days of Halloween: Day 6

My Halloween month continues! (And yes... I know this post is a day late, but I've had a busy week of non-Halloween things as well, so I'm just catching up!)

John Carpenter's Village of the Damned

We decided on a random film on the Horror channel tonight... and it was a good 'un! I haven't seen John Carpenter's 1995 version of Village of the Damned for ages. It's got Christopher Reeve! And Kirstie Allie! But it also poses the question... where are the kids getting those creepy little outfits from? Are their 'parents' dressing them like that? Or is there a specialist clothes shop in Midwich? (As a side note, I really want to reread The Midwich Cuckoos now. And The Chrysalids too come to think of it.)

Today's Story

Today's story was 'The Hand' by Guy de Maupassant. It's a relatively short one, and it's creepy rather than horrifying. Vendetta!

Today's Tea

Today's tea was Berry Lugosi's Dead from Tenacious Tea - definitely the most awesome packaging so far, and the fruitiest tea! As the packaging promised, it is very much a blood red infusion as well.