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Feb. 12th, 2021 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
turpsI've just spent a very enjoyable few hours reading the Clint centric story A Good Feeling by dentalfloss. Snow gently falling outside, a warm house, good fic. It really was a nice combo.
Yesterday I heard a weird scraping noise from outside, and when I went to look saw my next-door neighbour was busy shovelling and then salting our garden path and then the path leading toward the car park. He said he was worried about James slipping when going to the car, so a big thumbs up to lovely neighbours.
Then this morning the neighbour from two doors up knocked saying he didn't want to be picky but our recycling wheely bins had been mixed up and he'd put ours outside our garden. He was right, I noticed that last night but it was too slippery and dark to track down our bin at the time. He was perfectly nice about it, but I do wonder how they didn't notice they'd taken the wrong bin in as ours not only has our house number in huge numbers on the side but is also covered in multiple stickers of cartoon monsters.
February is for things I love
Our cinema of choice is Odeon and we're lucky enough to have three locations within easy driving distance. We go to Metrocentre when we want to make a day of things, have a look around the malls, get something to eat before seeing a film. Silverlink is smaller, has a few chain restaurants next to it and a few big shops, but is very much only a small retail park. Durham is the smallest, and probably the best. It's a luxe Odeon which means all the seats are recliners, and because of that, you don't have to pay any extra for them. The only downsides are, due to being in a different county you have to pay for parking at Durham, plus, there is no attached Costa, just a Costa to go machine.
Each year James gets a card that means a carer gets in free when he goes to the cinema. He also has an unlimited card which means for £18.99 a month we can both go see as many films as we want. Which is excellent value when one ticket can easily be £10 plus. This also means we go a lot, like multiple times a week in non-Covid times. The only type of film I won't go and see are horrors as they're really not my thing, but anything else, bring it on.
I just love the whole production, the dark, the whir of the curtains as they pull back to make the screen bigger. I like wandering in with my coffee from Costa, or on the weeks we're broke, a drink from home. I love getting lost in a new world for a few hours and then discussing the film as we drive home.
I miss going a lot and can't wait to go again.
Yesterday I heard a weird scraping noise from outside, and when I went to look saw my next-door neighbour was busy shovelling and then salting our garden path and then the path leading toward the car park. He said he was worried about James slipping when going to the car, so a big thumbs up to lovely neighbours.
Then this morning the neighbour from two doors up knocked saying he didn't want to be picky but our recycling wheely bins had been mixed up and he'd put ours outside our garden. He was right, I noticed that last night but it was too slippery and dark to track down our bin at the time. He was perfectly nice about it, but I do wonder how they didn't notice they'd taken the wrong bin in as ours not only has our house number in huge numbers on the side but is also covered in multiple stickers of cartoon monsters.
February is for things I love
Our cinema of choice is Odeon and we're lucky enough to have three locations within easy driving distance. We go to Metrocentre when we want to make a day of things, have a look around the malls, get something to eat before seeing a film. Silverlink is smaller, has a few chain restaurants next to it and a few big shops, but is very much only a small retail park. Durham is the smallest, and probably the best. It's a luxe Odeon which means all the seats are recliners, and because of that, you don't have to pay any extra for them. The only downsides are, due to being in a different county you have to pay for parking at Durham, plus, there is no attached Costa, just a Costa to go machine.
Each year James gets a card that means a carer gets in free when he goes to the cinema. He also has an unlimited card which means for £18.99 a month we can both go see as many films as we want. Which is excellent value when one ticket can easily be £10 plus. This also means we go a lot, like multiple times a week in non-Covid times. The only type of film I won't go and see are horrors as they're really not my thing, but anything else, bring it on.
I just love the whole production, the dark, the whir of the curtains as they pull back to make the screen bigger. I like wandering in with my coffee from Costa, or on the weeks we're broke, a drink from home. I love getting lost in a new world for a few hours and then discussing the film as we drive home.
I miss going a lot and can't wait to go again.
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Date: 2021-02-12 03:03 pm (UTC)That’s nice you have so many options! I do miss going to the cinema even though I don’t go too often myself
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Date: 2021-02-12 03:56 pm (UTC)We're lucky to have 3 Odeon's within driving distance, and I was thrilled when Durham opened due to it being so close. I really do miss going a lot.
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Date: 2021-02-12 03:24 pm (UTC)Oh that anticipatory moment as the curtains open more, sitting in the communal dark. I hope it's safe to go back this year.
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Date: 2021-02-12 03:58 pm (UTC)That moment is the best, the lights going down, the curtains opening and that hush before everything starts. I hope it's safe to go back this year too. Odeon put into place so many great measures last year when they could open, but these new varients have changed things yet again.
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Date: 2021-02-12 06:04 pm (UTC)I know you often mentioned your movie trips, and the Odeon theatres always sounded so great - I hope you can go to the cinema again soon
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Date: 2021-02-15 04:06 pm (UTC)I really like going to the cinema, and knew a lot of the staff on sight and used to enjoy passing time with them. I do hope they're okay, because so many must have lost their jobs unless put on furlough.
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Date: 2021-02-13 07:48 am (UTC)I miss going to the movies too. There's something immersive about the experience of sitting in the theater that can't be replicated by watching things at home. I hope we won't have too much longer to wait before it becomes safe again.
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Date: 2021-02-15 04:04 pm (UTC)There's something immersive about the experience of sitting in the theater that can't be replicated by watching things at home
I totally agree. I love losing myself in a film, but while I do watch them at home there's always some destruction.
Odeon did really well with their safety measures last summer before things got bad again. Hopefully they'll be able to do that again once the cases drop way down.
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Date: 2021-02-13 08:57 pm (UTC)I really miss hearing all about your movie experiences. Let's all keep our fingers crossed you will soon get to enjoy going to the cinema again and we will get to hear all about it! (And wether James fell asleep this time or not ;-)
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Date: 2021-02-15 04:00 pm (UTC)I decorated our bin so it wouldn't get mixed up, you really can't miss all the cartoon monsters. And yet, someone still took it. At least it came back the next morning, no doubt when they saw the monsters *g*
Ahaha, I know. James falling asleep is such a part of the cinema-going experience for me.
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Date: 2021-02-14 06:27 pm (UTC)That's very cool about the movie ticket pass. I miss going to movies, too. Our small local theater is showing movies, but I haven't felt comfortable going.
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Date: 2021-02-15 03:59 pm (UTC)The movie pass deal is so good. No way could we go to the cinema so often without it. I know when James' pass ran out once I nearly fell to the floor when I saw how much individual tickets actually were now *g*