August is over and the hopes of an Indian Summer are fading, as is the light in the evening!

What I have read

I am now at 92/100 books read, having slogged through a few more dud titles as I find it almost impossible to abandon a book completely.

What I have read:

• The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels #1) – India Holton
• Silver and Gold – reviewed here
• Confusion (Cazalet Chronicles #3) – Elizabeth Jane Howard
• The Secret Midwife – Soraya M Lane
• Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library – Chris Paling
• My Double Life – Angela Pearse
• Five on a Treasure Island (Brodie’s bedtime story)
• A Ration Book Childhood (East End Ration #3) – Jean Fullerton
• Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles #4) – Elizabeth Jane Howard
• All Change (Cazalet Chronicles #5) – Elizabeth Jane Howard
• Dinosaur Trouble – Dick King-Smith
• The Librarian (Librarian Chronicles #1) – Christy Sloat

And I’m still working on:

• A Catalogue of Catastrophe (Chronicles of St Mary’s #13) – Jodi Taylor
• The Invisible Dog – Dick King-Smith
• The Sword in the Stone (Once and Future King #1) – T H White (the book that the Disney movie is loosely based on.)
• Mistletoe and Magic for the Cornish Midwife (Cornish Midwife #6) – Jo Bartlett
• The Secret Island – review part one and part two

By E.H. Davie

What I have watched

• We finished Lego Masters NZ, so we are all out of Lego Masters until the next Australian series airs early next year.  In the mean-time we watched Good Omens series 2 and have begun Only Murders in the Building season 3.
• We’ve also watched Only Connect – the first round has seemed very hard this time! – and some House of Games.
• On Tuesdays my sister and I have been watching Is It Cake Too? We are getting pretty good at guessing which are the cakes but we don’t always get it right.
• I went back and finished Good Witch – or so I thought, but annoyingly Netflix doesn’t have the last couple of seasons. I then went back to Murder She Wrote and watched season 11 and some of 12.
• I also watched National Treasure and the sequel, then the first episode of the TV show that followed.
• We put on The Goonies to watch with Brodie and he loved it, though he did get a bit scared at times.

What I have done

• Visited Auchingarrich to see the animals, and accidentally let the goats escape.
• Ticked off the remaining libraries in the challenge and got a bonus one over in Tayport.
• Visited Cairnie Fruit Farm to play, beat the maze and pick a load of fruit.
• Brodie turned six (!) and we had a party for him, then he went back to school and into primary 2.
• Visited a model railway club on its open day and rode the trains.

What did your August look like?