And all at once, summer collapsed
Oscar Wilde

Hello, hello! I feel like I’m in a perpetual denial of the months going by. You’re telling me it’s October and that we’ve been in quarantine for almost eight months now? Riddikulus. Nevertheless, I am most certainly done with heat waves and would gladly swap them out for chilly days and copious amounts of PSLs no matter how basic.

What’s October like for us at home? Desperately trying to eat less cake (failing so far), continuously binge watching Love Island Season 3 and Vampire Diaries Season 8, competing with each other on Activity with our Apple watches, taking a few vacation days for apple picking and donut devouring, and hanging out with our stuffed animals Marshmallow and Lambchop forever. It’s the little, cozy things.

OCTOBER THEME

Dust your books, wands at the ready — let us relive our childhood once more with a Harry Potter-themed Supper Club.

From the Dursley’s home, Hogwarts Express train carts, to The Hog’s Head we get glimpses of  the food and drink enjoyed by our favorite characters — licorice wands, maggoty haggis, pumpkin juice, black pudding, cauldron cakes, steak and kidney pie, Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, rock cakes, treacle tart, Yorkshire pudding, pumpkin juice, rotten fish, pumpkin pasties, peanuts covered in fungus, and way more. Whether you want to cook from scratch, order fish and chips from a pub, or accio some jelly beans, you can’t really go wrong. We’ll turn the park into our very own Great Hall with this picnic feast.

ADDITIONAL HOUSE POINTS

It’s a special Supper Club for many reasons but most notably because we are also celebrating its second birthday. Happy birthday, Supper Club! To add a chocolate frog on top of it all, optional suggestions:

• Wear your house gear or colors

• Bring any pumpkin-flavored item from Trader Joe’s (you know they come with shiny, new pumpkin items every year)

• Bring a celebratory ‘happy birthday’ treat - open to interpretation