We are creeping closer to the end of the year, by the time this post goes up it will be the first of November. Halloween will be over and it’ll be time to start thinking about Christmas!
What I have read
I hit my goal of 100 books read in September but of course I just kept on reading. As it was Halloween in October I picked a few witchy-themed books.
What I have read:
- The Accidental Investigator (Heather Bay Romance #3) – Amber Eve
- Hex Appeal – Kate Johnston
- The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club #4) – Richard Osman
- Abby the Bad Sport (Baby-Sitters Club #110) – Ann M Martin
- The Impostor Bride (Heather Bay Romance #4) – Amber Eve
- Five Go to Smuggler’s Top
- A Change of Heart for the Cornish Midwife (Cornish Midwife #7) – Jo Bartlett
- The Case of the Missing Books (Mobile Library Mystery #1) – Ian Sansom
- The Holiday Bookshop – Lucy Dickens
- Anne Of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables #1) – L M Montgomery
- Five Go Off in a Caravan
- Something Wicked – Gretchen Rue
- All Things Bright and Beautiful – James Herriot
And I’m still working on:
- The Secret Island – review part one, part two, part three and part four
- Carry On (Simon Snow #1) – Rainbow Rowell
- Five on Kirrin Island Again
The Wake-Up Call – Beth O’Leary - Sorcery & Stories (Library Witch Mystery #3) Elle Adams
By E.H. Davie
What I have watched
- Our regular shows were The Simpsons (we are up to season 10 now), Only Connect and Taskmaster.
- Tuesday night movies were The Devil Wears Prada and, because we were looking for something Halloween-ish but not scary, Edward Scissorhands.
- Brodie had a sleepover with his auntie one weekend so we had time to watch Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers extended edition, (it’s about 3 hours 45 and requires two discs).
- I also finished off the Hack My Home TV series.
What I have done
- Visited the Transport Museum for the last event of the year – Military Vehicle Day.
- Did the Scotty Dog trail in Fife
- Visited the Frigate Unicorn (an 1824 training ship and one of the six oldest ships in the world) and explored the waterfront
- We had a mid-week break to Stirling so we visited the Wallace Monument, took a train through to Glasgow for the Riverside Museum (another transport one) and the Lego Store, and visited Blair Drummond Safari Park. We had planned to visit Stirling Castle on our last day but we just drove straight home due to the weather warnings. Brodie’s favourite part of the holiday was riding the Clockwork Orange, Glasgow’s subway.
- At the Lego Store I had bought The Lego Brand Store (40574) so I spent an afternoon building that during the red weather warning.
How was your October?
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Over here where we live there are the 4 days of Thanksgiving starting on 23rd of November. We’ll have friends over and intend to walk through Moore State Park near the Worcester Airport provided it has not rained 3 days ahead.
Our German friend Ute was here from 16th of October until 2nd of November. She was overjoyed when she realized on 17th of October that we are going with her for 3 days to Niagara Falls (I put the photos on my Facebook page). We stayed on the Canadian side of the falls and did everything that you can watch in the Marilyn Monroe movie “Niagara” (well, except of murder, of course :)).
On the 21st of October we celebrated André’s 70th birthday with 35 guests at the Château Restaurant in Andover, Massachusetts.
The biggest surprise at the celebration was a short visit from his 89 years old parents who are very frail.
Then I took Ute to the Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls, MA, the three of us did the Freedom Trail in Boston, took her to the Strawberry Banke Museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with lunch at the Weathervane Restaurant in Kittery, Maine. we did a whale watch tour from the Boston harbor, went to Moore State Park and Sudbury (very idyllic), drove to Cape Cod (Wellfleet and Provincetown) and celebrated Halloween with the neighborhood kids. I still need to work on those photos and will post them on my FB page next week.
I’m reading the second volume of Carol Drinkwater’s autobiography (4 more to follow), because in September I booked us a week at the guest cottage of the Olive Farm which belongs to Carol Drinkwater and her French husband Michel Noll. And for those who don’t know Carol Drinkwater: she played Helen Herriot, the vet’s wife in the 1979 BBC TV series “All Creatures Great and Small” with Christopher Timothy as James Herriot. Believe me, it’s way better than the remake series.
For André and me it has become a tradition since 2007 to watch on Halloween the 1976 Jodie Foster & Martin Sheen movie “The Little Girl who lives down the Lane” (the novel by Laird Koenig is my absolutely favorite book and I have to admit that the German translation is even nicer than the American original, because it’s more poetic).
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