Well, I may or may not have done my last Monday post but this will definitely be my last monthly round up for a while!

WHAT I’VE READ

Despite being on maternity leave the whole month I haven’t found as much time for reading as I had hoped!

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – Audiobook narrated by Stephen Fry
• Blotto, Twinks and the Dead Dowager Duchess (Blotto and Twinks #2) – Simon Brett
• Why is This Night Different From all Other Nights? (All the Wrong Questions #4) – Lemony Snickett
• The Zoo Book (reviewed in several parts)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Audiobook narrated by Stephen Fry
• High Hopes: My Autobiography – Ronnie Corbett

For the baby:

• Each Peach Pear Plum – Janet and Allan Ahlberg
• Five Minutes’ Peace – Jill Murphy
• Sally and the Limpet – Simon James
• Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes – Mem Fox
• No Bed Without Ted – Nicola Smee

And still on the go (most of the ones from last month I haven’t picked up again lately):

• Matilda – Roald Dahl audiobook narrated by Kate Winslet
• The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar – Roald Dahl audiobook
• Dead Before Dark (Sookie Stackhouse #1) – Charlaine Harris audiobook

So I got through some of my library books at least! I was hoping the Harry Potter audiobooks would keep me going up until the birth but I finished them too soon and thought it was too soon for a third re-listen so I’ve moved onto something new. I got through over 114 hours of audiobooks this month!

WHAT I’VE WATCHED

• The Highland Midwife which sadly only had three parts.
• Hollyoaks, as always
• Murder She Wrote. Season three of twelve now!
• The Designated Survivor on Netflix
• The Castle of Adventure – I’ve been reviewing more episodes for the blog

WHAT I’VE DONE 

• Had a baby shower and got lots of lovely books (and lots of predictions of when baby will arrive, some people have already been proved wrong.)
• Went to St Andrews with Stef and hobbled about very carefully.
• Had a pamper afternoon with Stef with face masks, hair masks and strange foot masks.
• Worn hiking boots all month to support my sprained ankle.
• Taken lots of naps.
• Done my best to finish the reviews of The Zoo Book and The Castle of Adventure before I disappear.
• Gone out to lunch with my mum several times (what else is there to do on Maternity leave?).
• Supervised/helped Ewan put together all the nursery furniture and put up the pictures we had. The whole room is organised and ready now!

WHAT STEF HAS READ

• The Mystery of Wickworth Manor – Elen Caldecot, reviewed here
• Gena/Finn – Hannah Moskowitz
• The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat – reviewed here
• The Buttercup Farm Family – reviewed here

Current reads:

• Too Many Cooks – Marina Pascoe
• The Ravenmaster’s Boy – Mary Hoffman
• Peggy and Me – Miranda Hart

WHAT STEF HAS WATCHED

I haven’t really watched anything much this month. Everything just seems to have gotten away from me. I have listed what I gave watched below:

• Top Gear: India Special – Top Gear is one of my guilty pleasures, and I haven’t got Amazon Prime to catch up on Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond’s latest show, The Grand Tour, so I settle for reruns. 
• The Antiques Roadshow – Caught a couple of episodes while I was there off a week or so ago, and they are delightfully quaint and humorous.>
• Red Dwarf – Still watching the old series of this show with my other half. 

WHAT STEF HAS DONE

So I have been quite a busy bee this month, one way and another.

• A visit to Fiona, in which I played nursemaid for she had sprained her ankle the week before.
• Had a pamper day with Fiona, with products from Lush to make sure that there was nothing to cause any issues with baby.
• BBQ – even though we haven’t quite had the weather I have had two bbqs this month, one in Nottingham with some old friends and my goddaughter, and then with my work, in which I was able to just chill with my colleagues.

So not done that much either, so sorry for being boring. I will try and be better next month!