September is over and with it went the last dregs of summer. We are now into October and autumn, but here’s what I got up to in September.

What I have read

I reached 100 books this month, which was my goal for the year. Now I need to decide if I want to up it by another 15 or 20 books, or just leave it. It’s not like I’ll stop reading either way.

What I have read:

• The BFG – Roald Dahl
• A Mother’s Love (Wartime Midwives #4) – Daisy Styles
• The House in the Cerulean Sea – TJ Klune
• The Primrose Railway Children – Jacqueline Wilson
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
• The Story of Our Queen – reviewed here
• The Little Bookshop on the Seine (Little Paris #1) – Rebecca Raisin
• Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs (Jane Jamieson #1) – Molly Harper
• Five Go to Demon’s Rocks – reviewed here and here
• The Library – Bella Osborne
• Nice Girls Don’t Date Dead Men (Jane Jamieson #2) – Molly Harper
• Class (Maggie Adair #1) – Jane Beaton, recommended here
• Rules (Maggie Adair #2) – Jane Beaton
• The Single Mum’s Book Club – Victoria Cooke

And I’m still working on:

• The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicles #1) – Elizabeth Jane Howard
• Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator – Roald Dahl
• Gunner Girls and Fighter Boys – Mary Gibson

Dustjacket of Five Go to Demon’s Rocks

What I have watched

• I’ve continued with House of Games and George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces.
• Despite a fair few bad reviews we’ve been enjoying Rings of Power
• I watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with Brodie now he’s read the book
• The Queen’s cortege as it passed through Dundee, and then most of the funeral coverage (minus the actual services).
• I went back and watched the first two series of The Crown and I’m now on series three which I’ve not watched before.
• My sister has introduced me to Pretty Woman and 13 going on 30 on our Tuesday movie nights.
• At the weekends we have watched The Shape of Water (worst film I’ve ever seen!)
• Thor Love and Thunder and Dangerous Minds

What I have done

• I took a trip into town with Brodie and my sister to visit the museum and treated ourselves to fancy ice cream sundaes
• We made use of our membership to go to bus day at the Transport Museum, which included a free shuttle bus on vintage buses there and back, and we had lunch out after at a pizza place. Brodie even had his photo taken driving a bus which ended up on the front cover of the local paper.
•  I visited my favourite place – St Andrews – with my parents and sister while Brodie was at school, we had lunch and a walk around as well as visiting some of the shops
• We went to Blair Dummond Safari for my nephews’ birthdays
• We turned an ordinary walk in the woods into a mushroom hunt and must have found at least a dozen different varieties

What I have bought

The Story of Our Queen, which I wrote about recently. I bought a copy the day after the Queen died, but then ended up reading a pdf copy a friend put online. It is still a lovely book to have, though.

How was your September?