Day Out in Penistone

On the 7th of June I had plans with Sam in Penistone. I had seen that there was a special screening of Cabaret which we love, so we had booked that ages ago. Then it turned out that The Salt Path was out at the same time and screening earlier in the day. Some of my book club were going, so I arranged to meet them for lunch first and then meet Sam at the cinema. 

About nine of us went to The Loft for lunch. I've been before but it was a really long time ago. I had cheese on toast with Henderson's Relish. It was very cheesy! I also had a huge latte. By the time we had finished there, it was close to 2pm so I hotfooted it down to the cinema to meet Sam. We went in and got our seats. 

We read the book for book club a couple of years ago (my review here) so a few of us were intrigued to see the film. I got quite a lot out of it having read the book - there were times when I knew what would happen and so on. It looked stunning, the scenery of the south west is gorgeous, and it was nice to see places I've been like in Minehead and Porlock Weir. Jason Isaacs and Gillian Anderson both looked great and I thought the wardrobe and make up were great. The sound was annoying at times because of the wind and they mumbled a lot. Gillian's accent left a lot to be desired, but over all I liked the film. But Sam hasn't read the book and she didn't get as much out of the film as me. But we were both glad to have seen it. 

We walked up to The Vault where Sam had booked us a table for food. I had focaccia with oil and vinegar, Brie bites with chilli dip, and fries with parmesan and truffle oil. I had a Hugo cocktail to start off with. Then I had an espresso martini with my pudding, which was a brownie with ice cream. When we had finished that we still had some time before Cabaret so we popped downstairs to the bar down there, which is sold as a speakeasy. I'm not really sure it has that vibe, but it is cute. I had a pornstar martini. 

We went back down to the cinema for 7.30. It was much less busy than The Salt Path, but still a good number. I love Cabaret but hadn't seen it in forever so there was loads of it I had forgotten. It was nice to see it on the big screen. It finished about 10pm and there wasn't a train for Sam until after 11pm so I didn't want to leave her in Penistone just yet, so we walked up to the Spreadeagle for a drink. I've never been in but it's nice inside. There was a boxing match on (with a lad that is from Barnsley apparently so clearly the locals were invested) so we ended up watching some of that. Lee picked me up about ten to eleven and we got home and went to bed!

What a lovely day - I'm not sure I've ever done two cinema screenings in one day before but it was fun to see both films. Penistone Paramount is a really cute little cinema, really old school style like the one we had in Wakefield when I was little. They have an intermission in the middle of the film which is cute too. 

Pride flags in full flight outside the cinema

Hugo cocktail, it was really nice

Focaccia and oil, I didn't get a photo of the rest of my food, oops!

My espresso martini and Sam's pornstar martini 

Dessert

This cute sign was in the loo

Cocktails downstairs in the speakeasy. They do a bottomless brunch so Sam and Jac and I will have to go down there one day

The intermission in Cabaret, so cute

And the poster up in the hallway. I don't know why it says Cabaret was the 50th anniversary screening when it wasn't - the film was released in 1972! But never mind eh