Well September flew by before I knew it!  Being ill for some of it did not help and having Doctors appointments, blood tests and things I am quite glad it has left!  Hopefully October is going to be a little kinder, but I am not counting my chickens yet.

For everyone who likes to hide their heads in the sand about Christmas, I hate to tell you this but there are 85 days left before the Big Day!  It you like to look at it this way, it is twelve weeks to go, so some would say it is three months yet but as we know the weeks really do fly by so before we know it, Christmas will be here.   As you, who follow me regularly, know I love Christmas.  Especially the build up to it and I have noticed that my Instagram feed has been getting a lot more Christmas posts.  As the last few weeks have been not good I have even, much to the horror of our Boys, started playing Christmas music in my car.  Eldest moaned the other day when he had to move my car and it was playing “Merry Christmas Everybody”!!!!  🙂

If you remember last Christmas I ended up with Shingles. I was ill over our summer holiday so I am absolutely determined I am not going to be ill this Christmas.  Hence my planning, sorting out and generally getting organised this year so that by the time December arrives, everything is sorted and I can actually sit back, relax and enjoy the holidays and not be ill!!!  SO I am probably going to annoy a lot of you now, but I have almost finished my Christmas shopping!  I have planned the Christmas baking and am in the process of sorting out our freezers so that I can make things and put them in the freezer ready for December.  Obviously we don’t know yet who is going where for Christmas Day but I have two plans incorporating different numbers so I can just pick whichever list I need. 

There will be a few Christmas visits seeing family and friends and some other fun things to do which I will hopefully have pictures to show you.  It would be lovely if it snowed this year, especially when we don’t have to get about but I am not sure that it will co-operate.  It has been heavy rain here for the last two days and we are getting some local flooding again so I suspect this will be it for the rest of the year.  Our leaves are coming off the trees quite a bit now but are of course very wet so quite hard to pick up.  I am hoping at the weekend, which we have off, we will get a day when it is dry to try and get the leaves up.

October I am planning on getting quite a bit done and also some more de-cluttering and tidying as well as a bit of Autumn cleaning (like Spring Cleaning but not everything!) before we decorate for Halloween, Bonfire Night and then Christmas. 

Friday DH and I will be going to Goose Fair, always the start of Autumn events for us and then home jobs over the weekend and at the moment the weather is due to be good so we can get some garden jobs done too and also home jobs.

I hope your September went well and October is going to be kind. 

Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx

Coco in snuggle mode on our bed.

Blaze on his platform where he can look out of the window and be nosey!