Pumpkin Soup

 I know Halloween was a few days ago now, but I didn't carve my pumpkin till after Halloween as my mum was busy. Nevertheless I love pumpkin soup so took it upon myself to make the soup. This is my mums recipe, it feeds loads as its for a giant pot and is super yummy and mild. I shall warn you that it takes a lot of hard work and prep can take up to 2 hours!! As there's lots of chopping and emptying the pumpkin is super hard. I forgot to add on the recipe that once you're happy with the final product add a medium tub of single cream, and on day 2 you may wish to freeze the soup.

Bertie Botts beans

This is a quick review of the Bertie-Botts Every Flavour beans from Harry potter, purchasable at the theme park and tour. There are 20 flavours....

Each with a 'unique' taste, me and my friend took it in turns to select a bean with are eyes closed and tried to guess the flavour. I think she was better at guessing, but I stomached them better! The worst ones were earthworm,black pepper, vomit, cinnamon, dirt and rotten egg. It's nice when you come across a cherry or candyfloss but they can easily be mistaken for a cinnamon. There's the well known sherbert lemmon and bogey flavoured beans mentioned in the films, it's really fun to relive the potter experience.

These were originally made for the USA so have some E numbers in them which aren't usually found in British sweets, this is a negative for me as I don't need to be more hyper and they could probably break me out. I still have the half-eaten packet, I would suggest making a game out of it with a friend as they're not the sort to be eaten in one go. The beans cost £8.95 but I think they are worth it as a one-off treat since you can't buy them anywhere else. The chocolate frog was also very good but nothing special and not worth the price, I got an Godric Gryffindor card unfortunately (I'm more of a hufflepuff/ravenclaw), the chocolate last a long time as its large but for £7.95 you might as well get the card off ebay.

Harry Potter Tour (Picture heavy)

WAIT A SECOND. I can't believe I never did a blog post of the Harry Potter tour in summer! Well, well, well, all i can say is this contains a lot of images! It seems ages ago especially since its only a day tour but my sister came down to London to take me to the Harry Potter tour at the end of August. If you don't already know I'm a huge harry potter fan so I was so looking forward to this as I'v been to the Orlando theme park (before I'd read the books!) and didn't buy anything :( This time I made sure to get a chocolate frog. So to get ready I tried making homemade butterbeer which didn't taste very nice as I added too much cinnamon, I did my nails, watched half of the final film in the morning and wore a yellow sunshine coloured top with my dirigible plum earrings, spectrespecs, pink converse and deathly hallows symbol necklace.

I had an awesome time there is so much to see that you should really take your time, as I was with my sister I didn't go as slow as I would have liked too and I had an audio guide which I didn't get to take full advantage of (it gives a Tom Felton voice over of everything and has lots of unseen images and footage on it). I was slightly dazed walking past everything in quick transession as so much whizzed past my eyes.

Before I left I made sure to go to the gift shop, I bought a sugar quill lolly, a chocolate frog, bertie botts beans, and a pygmy puff (which I have named bon-bon). I'll do another post on  the bertie botts beans!!

Lots of love xx