I'm already seeing differences between this and the original film so.. Maybe they went a different way with it and that is why they didn't remake the trilogy, it'll stand on it's own as a single film with the same name as a classic.. Something I always find strange about my taste in films, I find the old films stories so cheesy but they work - whereas with the modern remakes, they piece it together much better but it just annoys me because the characters always seem to have a background knowledge and stuff.. I guess it is just where I am used to the original story.
Oh why did you read the book? It told you not to.. And the book is covered in blood. WHY!?
Day 704
We have discovered a new delight at the cinema, a lovely lemon slush drink made my Tango, they call it an ice blast and we love it.
They do a couple of different flavours which are clearly defined by the colours, there is blue, pink and yellow - which we have and is lemon flavour. It made me think of our holiday last year as one of the amusement parks in America had something which I refer to as yellow slush. It was so good, and this tastes just like it. I don't want to say one was better than the other because.. I have this feeling it was the American one and I don't know if and when I will get to try that again. You can even combo these with Cineworld's popcorn deals so it is pretty good value, especially with a premium card giving you a 25% discount which makes them more like normal prices - how exciting.
The only thing that is quite disconcerting.. Is that this is vividly yellow, and when we had it the first time I didn't think anything of it. On the way back, I asked Amy to look up how to make some as we have a blender which you can obviously use to slush-ify (scientific term) the ice. She found this recipe, you blend ice, sugar and lemon juice together and hey presto - lemon slush! The difference is, this does not come out yellow, like, not even a hint. It comes out as this clear tastiness - I highly recommend. I love anything lemon.
So that was part of Friday night so I know it technically doesn't count as the weekend but.. At the same time I know it does for a lot of people.. Let's just go with it.
We decided to get up early Saturday morning to go shopping and get it out the way with, plus it wouldn't be as busy - nice and easy. The alarms went off and we appear to have made the unanimous decision without communicating to just go back to sleep.. For a couple of hours.. Oops. It was so worth it though - lay ins are definitely one of little pleasures in life. So instead, we decided for a little jaunt into town for a Weatherspoons lunch where I had a mixed grill.
Now - I have not eaten much steak in my life, honestly the first one I had was last year. Other than a gammon steak, I have eaten that on many occasions. This had a rump steak and also a lamb steak. The rump was done medium rare - great. I can't really tell how the lamb was done because honestly some bits of still looked raw but there was no blood or anything.. It was actually so good, I really enjoyed it. That was my something new for the day.
We also indulged ourselves in two separate walks, we like to go along the rivers and what not to enjoy the scenery and wildlife we find - and by that I mean taking it in turns to run at pigeons. They don't trust us anyway.
Day 705
Today, we decided to head off to a boot fair, and I have mentioned before that my parents have always found some pretty interesting ties at boot fairs. Thanks to previous travels and the one today at the Hop Farm - I am not the proud owner of these lovelies!
How awesome are these? I know that one of them is clearly seasonal but I am sure I will have the opportunity to wear it later on in the year. We also have a Guiness tie which is covered in glasses of Guiness - I don't drink it myself. I have never tried it so I might like it but.. I hate trying new drinks, because if I buy it and don't like it - wasted money, I also have a couple of coloured patterns, Bugs Bunny, Mr Men, Wallace and Gromit and also Tom and Jerry. A great haul all in all. I always find the contrast of prices strange, the cheapest here only cost me 25p where as another cost £1. Some people ask for more - I guess it depends if it is a stall who does this as a business or someone who is just having a clear out. We also got two other little things which.. I am going to save, to share with you in my next post.
This film basically went down a gory route. It is pretty disturbing some of the imagery I am seeing.. It is quite interesting - to me at least - to see the stark contrast between what is 'acceptable' to show in a film. The original of course had some very disturbing images for the time it was made, but the special effects which which I can recognise today at the time would be like what I am watching now. The special effects make this seem much more real.. How the times have changed. You can also tell I am not used to the luxury of recording TV because I have been sitting here watching the adverts..
This is something I would quite like to explore, how video games have changed. I mentioned last time how I am really excited at the announcement of Fallout 4 and how it is going to amazing. I personally joined in the series on Fallout 3 on the 360, but there have been two other games which I never played and may not ever be able to. They are available on Steam but only for Windows, whilst I do have the Mac dual booted, I didn't partition it for heavy usage in terms of installing games.. Whilst I could probably increase this, I don't want to impact the performance of the device.. Anyway.
I am thinking I am going to search for some lets plays on YouTube of the first couple of Fallout's, I also want to watch someone play through Final Fantasy VIII as me and my brother played this one but never really got too far into it, we weren't too great at that type of game at the time. I would be interested to see the game develop and what not. Sounds like I have decided to give myself a lot of video to watch.
The book writing is also continuing, I am enjoying the process at the moment, like researching things and making decisions to put in place things which will make sense or assist the story. Choosing a name for the main character was hard enough. I guess I will try and give you updates where I can without giving anything away - the superstitious side of me will win this one. Well, thanks for reading and of course, a good night or day to you. Blog you later!
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