It has been one of those weeks, well two actually, since my last post on October 1st!  How are we in Week 3 of October already?  The weeks are flying at the moment.  I am finally getting over my various illnesses and the tablets are starting to help which is one good thing.  Still have a few things to get sorted but hoping it will soon be gone.  I have warned everyone in the family that if they start with the sniffles to stay away from me!!!

When you have children you think how difficult it is when they are babies because they can’t tell you what they want or what their problem is.  Then as Toddlers that brings a whole other set of issues and don’t get me started when they become Teenagers.  However when they are officially “grown up” ie eighteen and over their problems become big, adult problems but you as Mom and Dad are expected to be able to sort it all out like you used to when they were little.  I will say though that sorting these problems out takes a whole lot out of you!  We are all fine, which I am very thankful for, but it has been a hard two weeks!

Anyway I missed Book Club Friday so thought I would do it today before another week has gone by!

I have just started to read this.  It is not a long book but I liked the write up it had and I have not read one of Joanne Harris’s books in ages, the last one being “Chocolat”.  

Tom is a photographer living and working in London at a little camera shop of which he lives above.  He loves taking photographs of things which everyone else would normally ignore, like the homeless man with his possessions in a cart.  However it is when he develops his films that he starts to realise that there is a hidden, magical world just out of reach but it is beautiful, dangerous and definitely menacing!  Tom realises he needs to find The Moonlight Market hidden in the secret Heart of London where you can buy anything and where you may also find love.  Tom knows that something is missing and The Moonlight Market just might be where he finds it.

If you like fantasy books with Faeries, kings and queens then you will love this book.  I have only just started to read it but so far it is promising.

This was one of the books I had taken away with me in August for our vacation and started it.  It was one of those books which I started, then put down for a bit, then picked it up again.  However I did not finish it.  I found the writing to be too “flowery” without actually telling the story or as has been coined recently; there was too much “word salad” in it!  It has now moved to my donate pile!

Yesterday I had to go up to Eldest’s garage to sort out a parcel and some other jobs as he had been out on a fire call since early in the morning.  This of course threw my day out so today I am catching up.  Yesterday morning when I was at my desk Coco was in her basket which is next to it.  She has a habit of making a mess of her quilt which is in her basket and ends up sleeping on top of it.  I did not see that she had her head out of her basket and I moved my chair and trapped her head!  She yelped and got out of her basket but at least she was okay.  I went over her to make sure she had no cuts or anything and she didn’t, SO I am now straightening her bed every time she gets out of it to make sure it does not happen again. The above picture is after I had sorted her quilt out and as you can see she is now all in her basket snuggled.

Today I am catching up with all the jobs I should have done yesterday and have a whole weeks worth of ironing to get done too!  Over the weekend we did get our garden and home jobs done.  I bought some “everything friendly” liquid to clean the patio and stop it going green.  After all the rain we had last winter the patio was green instead of cream!  I won’t know for a couple of days if it has worked or not.  If it doesn’t I will have to find something stronger!

Saturday and Sunday evening it was the swimming club’s in-house championships where the swimmers compete for the Club Trophies which are then presented just before Christmas.  We had some great swims, a few Championship records smashed and nothing went wrong during the two events!  Next weekend DH has two swimming events, one on Friday evening and one on Saturday evening but we have Sunday freen.  Our weather has been very Autumnal over the last couple of the weeks but at the end of this week it is going to be mild again!  I prefer at this time of year for it to be cold which then hopefully kills off all the bugs we catch!

I hope you have had a good two weeks and I will try and keep up with my posts.  Happy Tuesday you lovely lot. 

Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx

Coco’s new toy which Eldest & Partner bought her.  She loves it and it is big enough to double up as a pillow!!!