What I have read

I felt like I had a slow start to reading in February – and I definitely did a lot of listening to old favourites. But then I must have read a lot as I ended on 17 books!

What I have read:

• Five Go Down to the Sea
• The Secret Book Club – Shauna Robinson
• A Second Chance (Chronicles of St Mary’s #3) – Jodi Taylor
• Tilly and the Map of Stories (Pages & Co #3) – Anna James
• A Trail Through Time (Chronicles of St Mary’s #4) – Jodi Taylor
• The Library Girls of the East End – Patricia McBride
• No Time Like the Past (Chronicles of St Mary’s #5) – Jodi Taylor
• Five Go to Mystery Moor 
• What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (Chronicles of St Mary’s #6) – Jodi Taylor
• Happily Ever After for the Cornish Midwife (Cornish Midwife #8)
• The Vintage Guide to Love and Romance – Kirsty Greenwood
• A Demon’s Guide to Wooing a Witch (Glimmer Falls #2) – Sarah Hawley
• James Herriot’s Animal Storybook – James Herriot
• We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown Up Readers – Marisa Crawford
• The Nesting – C J Cooke
• Five Have Plenty of Fun
• Lies, Damned Lies, and History (Chronicles of St Mary’s #7) – Jodi Taylor

And I’m still working on:

• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
• How to Date Your Dragon (Mystic Bayou #1) – Molly Harper
• The Island of Adventure
• Boy of Chaotic Making (Whimbrel House #3) – Charlie N Holmberg

What I have watched

• I’ve still been watching Call the Midwife Series 13, as well as ER season 5 and 6 and I finally finished Time Traveller’s Wife. Such a shame there won’t be a series two. I might actually have to read the book now (or maybe watch the movie, to see what happened next.)
• Tuesday nights we have still been watching season two of And Just Like That (the Sex and the City sequel) even though it’s so bad. The terrible knitwear in every episode has us shouting at the screen.
• Stef and I watched the new Famous Five episode (reviews here and here) and then with Brodie we watched a couple of episodes of the 90s series (review to follow.) We also watched Miss Congeniality.

What I have done

• We went to see The Rock Orchestra by Candlelight and it was amazing. They played loads of songs that we loved and they were just so good.
• Then Stef arrived for a visit! Aside from watching the Famous Five we took Brodie to the park to make patrins, we went to Fife Zoo, and the V&A. Then we took ourselves off to St Andrews for the weekend. We had tickets for a book event at Topping and Co to see Sara Sheridan, but we also made time to get our feet wet (accidentally) in the extremely high tide as it washed over the harbour path.
• I built another Harry Potter Hogwarts set which Brodie immediately claimed to play with – as they are modular you can mix and match the ‘rooms’ so we made quite a good set-up combining the Room of Requirement and the Battle of Hogwarts courtyard. I then bought myself a smaller set – the Polyjuice Potion bathroom and we added that in too. And then I bought the Herbology Classroom which I’ve been after for ages.
• We went back to St Andrews again to go to the aquarium and visit the castle.
• I helped my parents with clearing out their loft and claimed a huge box of my Babysitters Club books.

What I bought

I treated myself to another copy of Splendid Notes for Every Occasion as I found it in a charity shop for £2. I say another as I already have it, and the rest of the set. They’re too  nice to actually use however, but now I have a second set maybe I will actually use it!

How was your February?