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Susie’s Friday Book Club.

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Waterstones, Piccadilly – Europe’s Largest Bookstore.

Since we have been back from holiday I have managed to still get some reading in despite cathing up on work and home jobs!!  Our holiday seems like a lifetime ago now but being in September  we are definitely feeling the Autumn weather making itself known now with cooler evenings and of course it is getting dark earlier and earlier.  I do love this time of year though and I also think I tend to read more as the nights draw in.  

During our holiday I did start three books which I ended up DNFing for various reasons.  They were:

“The Housekeepers” by Alex Hay  /  “The Village Library Demon Hunting Society” by C.W. Waggoner /  “A Winter’s Murder” by Simon Brew.

The Housekeepers was a good idea set in the 1920’s England and they get together to rob their employers.  However the writing and style did not come across at all well, so after 50 pages I DNF’d it!

The Village Library Demon Hunting Society was again a good idea except again the writing was not good and the demon appearing was not Stephen King inspired at all!  DNF

Finally A Winter’s Murder was a story where you decide what direction it will take and you jump around pages with the decisions and I took about four turns and then I was out as I had made the wrong decisions!  I could not be bothered to go back and start again! DNF

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Finally “Yellowface” by R.F. Kuang I read and listened to this and got half way through the book and I just got to the point where I did not like any of the characters at all and would have quite happily slapped them all!  The whole premise of the book, one character stealing the unpublished book of her dead friend and passing it off as her own and then the person who discovers the deception being equally immoral.  Because of this I DND’d it also!

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Finally I read this and gave it five stars!   Small town life has lots of secrets especially at the school gates.  Newly divorced Mom Jude is drawn to Widower Will especially when their daughters become friends but she is warned off him by the other Moms because his wife died in mysterious circumstances and his partner has been missing for a few years!  Can Jude prove them wrong or will she be next?  

This was well written.  You get to follow Jude in her quest along with other mysteries surrounding the Mom’s at the school gates and their stressful lives even when they appear organised and happy!  A very good book and a good ending.

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Karin Slaughter is one of my favourite Authors and I have read several of her books already.  This one was published in June this year and I began it whilst on holiday.  North Falls is a small town and everyone knows everyone’s business and a lot of the time actually related to each other.  On 4th of July cook out and fireworks for the town, Deputy Sherriff Emmy Clifton is asked by her best friend if she will talk to her step-daughter, Madison, who has become very withdrawn to see if Emmy can find out what is wrong.  Before she has chance Madison and her best friend Cheyenne go mising and Emmy throws herself into finding the girls, but she is not ready for all the secrets that are going to be revealed.

The characters in the book are very well crafted and the interactions of them with each other whilst trying to find out what happened to the two teenagers is well done.  There is a twist near the end which I did see coming but it did not detract from the book.  It is a thriller but also about how human these people are.  I really enjoyed it.

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Finally for this month is “The Housemaid” by Freida McFadden.  This is where I will perhaps lose people with my opinion on this book!  Earlier in the year I listened to “The Tenant” by Ms McFadden on audiobook, the first of her books I read/listened to and my Review was in July 2025.  I gave it two stars!  As you can imagine I went into this with a bit of trepidation and I was right!

Millie is desperate for a job so she does not have to live in her car anymore.  The problem is that very few people want to give you a job after they know you have been in prison.  However she sees this job for a live in Housemaid in a very nice area on Long Island and she applies.  Mrs Nina Winchester interviews her and offers her the job to begin immediately and Millie is so relieved. 

Her room is in th attic and is small, cramped and the window does not open and to make matters worse there is a lock but on the outside of the door which makes her suspecious.  However the room has a bed, its own bathroom and it is going into winter.  Mr Andrew Winchester is very handsome and helps Millie to settle in and navigate Nina’s unstable outbursts and their daughters rude behaviour but she will have to be careful not to get too involved or attached she needs the job.   The longer she is at the house the longer Millie realises that things are not right with the Winchesters, but she has to stay, however how long can she last in this deeply disfunctional home?

Now don’t get me wrong the book is okay but having read The Tennant I quickly realised that it and The Housemaid are the same plat with slight tweeks here and there.  It has a similar twist and a flat ending again, just like The Tenant! However it did not have as many “ick” moments in as The Tenant does, hence three starts for this but only two starts for The Tenant!

I have found this problem with some other authors, where they find a formula and so every book is written in the same way and for me that gets boring.  Ms MCFadden’s books are not long and it does move quickly but if all of her books are the same I won’t be reading them. I have one more of her books on my TBR shelf and I will read that but if it is the same then I am afraid she will not become a favourite of mine.  I know there are a lot of thriller book readers out there who aboslutely love her books, but I don’t think I am going to be one of them! 

I have read one more book which was for Jayne’s and my Book Club book for September and I will tell you about that next week as I am seeing Jayne for lunch on Tuesday!  

I hope you lovely lot have a wonderful weekend, find some time to read, whatever you are up to and I shall see you all back here on Monday. 

Hugs & Love, Susie & Cocoxx

A Downton Goodbye!

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DH and my Date Night last night was to see the final Downton Abbey film at the cinema!  We have not been to the cinema in ages, particularly as it now seems to cost as much as going out for a meal (!) and the other reason being there has been nothing on we wanted to see.  However this film opened on Friday.

If you have watched all the series and the two prior films then you will know that this just follows on from them.  You can see this film without have watched the previous ones but you would probably miss one or two references.  Sadly The Dowager Countess of Grantham died in the previous film and Dame Maggie Smith herself passed away last year and the film is dedicated to her.  That was the only thing missing from the film her wit, perfect timing of her little pearls of wisdom, and barbs that her character was known for.

©Downton Abbey the series.

The film begins with Lady Mary Talbot going through a divorce which in 1930 was a scandal and divorced women were treated as if they were fallen.  This then leads into the fact that Lord Grantham needs to take over the running of Downton again because of Lady Mary’s status.  We also find that Lady Grantham’s mother has passed away and the Estate is being handled by her brother in America badly which again has an affect on Downton’s fortunes.  The film also shows the older staff retiring and leaving the younger staff to take over, so very much changes happening throughout all their lives.  

It was excellent and a good tribute to everyone who has worked on the series and the three films and a nice way to end an icon of recent TV.  Especially as we get so many controversial shows now, or inane ones (the “talent” shows!) and not forgetting the dreadful “Reality” TV which is as far from reality as anything else.  So it was great to have this series and three films which are elegant and although it is probaly not the best word to describe it, but gentle programme.  I for one will miss it but the benefit of our TV viewing now is we are able to watch them all the time thanks to the streaming networks!  Netflix in the UK and the series is also now on Disney+ too.  I have started to watch the series again and Dame Maggie Smith is just the best.

If you are a fan of the show I am sure this film will soon be available to watch on TV and does not disappoint.

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I haven’t forgotten about Book Club Friday but DH and my’s Friday turned into chaos not of our doing!  We were waiting for a delivery of two pieces of furniture for Youngest and they ended up coming by two separate deliveries both ends of the day and in between we had to dash off and get my car, which was in Birmingham which is a dreadful place to drive through. DH knows it well because of business so I was following him which can be a bit of a nightmare but we got home in time for the second delivery but then found that we only had two of the three boxes we needed!  Anyway I will do Book Club Friday tomorrow.

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend.  Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx

Today.

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On this Day we Remember

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As with all days this one comes around and it is now twenty four years ago, which seems unbelievable.  I think it will be a day eteched in everyone’s memories who witnessed this terrible thing on our TV’s.  Our hearts go out to all those who lost loved ones.

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Yesterday was busy as I am trying to sort out all the paperwork for my current vehicle and for the new vehicle well new to me.  Years ago it was suggested that eventually paperwork would be a thing of the past and we would do everything on line but here we are in 2025 and I suspect we are still using the same amount of paper!  I once worked in an office where they actively encouraged no paper use at all and to be perfectly honest they seemed to use more paper than anywhere else I had worked!

I have been busy with work this morning and so am going to do my home jobs  done tomorrow.  The weekend is busy for DH with swimming and playing cars with the Boys (!) and I am hopefully getting on with quilting.  

Tomorrow is Book Club Friday and I have quite a few to show you and some thoughts on one particular Author, who is very popular at the moment and is everyhwere but I, well I will tell you tomorrow.  I may lose people over it but still! 🙂

It is getting cooler here, especially at night, although it is still warm in the day.  Autumn is starting to make itself known.  The other day when the windows were open a neighbour had a bonfire and the smell was wonderful and really reminded me that Autumn is here.  Because it has been very dry this Spring and Summer the leaves on the trees are already falling and the trees are turning already.  Although I do love all the seasons as they offer something different I think I love Autumn just that little bit more.

Coco is having withdrawal symptoms because the door is not open all day for her to run in and out!  If we get a nice day the door is still open but we have also been getting quite a bit of rain too which we do need.  She will soon be snoozing in her basket!!!!

Happy Thursday you lovely lot.  Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx

Whisper it……….Christmas!

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I know we are only just into Autumn but I need to start sorting out some things for Christmas, especially as I am going to be laid up for six weeks!  Not strictly laid up but I won’t be able to be out and about like normal!  So I have started to get some things done.

I have already booked the Steam Train to see Santa as we needed a specific date so that is one thing off my list!  This week these have arrived;

The Christmas Cards!

I am not going to write them yet (!) as I can do them when I am back from my Op!   The next thing I need to plan is all the Christmas baking!  I have suggested that I buy the mince pies, Christmas Cake and Christmas Pudding this year and so when I was shopping last week I got some mince pies for DH to try.  He was not impressed!!!!

The supermarket I shop at, Sainsburys, do their own range which is called “Taste the Difference” which is better than the basic range.  So I bought these last week and although DH said they were okay he preferred their basic ones!!!  So I will be buying some of those this week for him to try and if they are okay I will be ordering some each week and putting them in the freezer.  

Last year I did buy our Christmas Pudding from Fortnum & Mason and then we ended up with two so we had one and the other is in the cupboard for this year so that is already here and ticked off my list.  With regard to the cake that is going to be the trickiest.  Eldest loves the cake I make which I cover in Royal Icing.  DH loves the cake but not the icing, Youngest prefers the chocolate log I make and Partner does not like fruit cake at all. Fiancé being pregnant is off all things rich!  So if I get the Fortnum’s Christmas Cake it is fruit but it is covered in the fondant icing which none of us like!  However they may just have to put up with it for this year!

I have already bought a few Christmas presents when I have seen things during the year but again there will not be as many this year as I will not be able to get out and about.  Although you can buy anything on line now I still do like to go out and see things but we shall see.  I have ordered the Christmas paper though!!!!

I have quite a bit of storage now in Youngest’s room, so things will be going in there to be stored and I am keeping a list of things I have bought already and for whom, so I can keep track of things.  Of course it will be Gordon’s first Christmas and I have ordered him his own stocking from Etsy which is arriving on Saturday.  I need to sort out the animals presents too!

DH is already booking events for Christmas and a few have been confirmed.  There was one enquiry  for a Friday evening at the beginning of December but I had already booked tickets for DH and I to go and see Vivaldi by Candlelight that evening.  I have booked my hair and beauty appointments for December as they get booked up really quickly.  

It is not all Christmas though, we do have some lovely things coming up in the next few months too, although DH and I will not be going away for our Wedding Anniversary this year as I will have only just had my Op!  However I will be booking for next year!  We think we will be going away for a week with Coco at the end of February, beginning of March just for a week to decompress after Christmas & New Year.  

Work is busy which is a relief although we are still having ups and downs thanks to our Government and their “policies” which are all over the place at the moment, as well as the volatile situation generally.  I think we just need to keep our heads down and get on with things and ignore everything going on out there!

I hope you are all having a good week.  Next weekend DH is busy with a swimming event and then he and The Boys are doing some work on their own vehicles so I will hve two days of quilting time!  I am sure Coco will be helping. 

Hugs & Love Susie & Coco xx

Coco would normally be doing Coco’s Corner today but she is a bit tired again!

I Am Sure The Weeks Are Getting Shorter!

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The evenings are definitely drawing in, but I am sure the weeks are getting shorter!  There are supposed to be seven days a week but they are absolutely flying by!   The weekend was really busy; DH, Eldest & Partner, Youngest & Fiancé and Little Man went to a truck show on Saturday.  The weather was great, warm but not too sunny as a lot of the exhibts were outside.  I did not go of course because of my hip, so I was doggy sitting Gordon and Coco. 

Friday DH and I had a busy day getting jobs done.  We have started sorting out the boxes from the attic which are now in the garage and getting rid of things and also giving things to the Boys!!  Hopefully it will be finished by the end of this year.  We also have the attic to tidy, but there is not too much in there now. 

Sunday DH, Eldest & I went to look at a new vehicle for me.   Well I say me but DH and The Boys all use it as well.  We had a good visit and it looked great so we are now in the process of sorting it out and hopefully I will have it by Friday of this week. 

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This weekend DH has his first swimming event of the new season but only for a few hours on Saturday and in the evening we are going to see the new Downton Abbey film at the cinema.  We have not been for ages, mainly because there has not been anything ,on we wanted to see, but this is only being shown at the cinema first so I thought we would have a date night.  Sunday will be nice again so I think we will be carrying on in the garage. 

We did do quite a lot of work in the garden and have gotten quite a few of the plants which needed trimming done.  We have arranged for the tree men to come at the end of October to trim the trees in the garden hopefully before the storms begin.  We did them about two years ago but they need doing again.  Our Roofer came to sort out the drain pipes last week and we asked him to go all over the roof to check it and he found one bit where a tile had slipped and it needed re-positioning and re-pointing which he did.  We are so glad he did because the next day you have never seen rain like it!  If we had not had that done we would have had water coming in!

This week is busy again with work of course and I have lots of home jobs to get done too, as well as a basket of ironing.  I am going to Eldest’s business on Wednesday to get work done there too and then Friday we are waiting for a delivery to arrive and then hopefully picking the car up.  

The other news we have in the family is that Youngest & Fiancé are expecting!  Yeah!  We are all so pleased for them.  The baby is due at the end of January 2026 and we had a Gender Reveal here a few weeks ago with just the family and they are expecting a little Girl!  Little Man’s face was a little disconcerted as he has, of course, two sisters and now will have a little girl cousin.  He will be surrounded!!!    Above is the table set waiting for everyone to arrive.  I made lasagne’s for dinner with salad and garlic bread and then we had cake .  They had got the smoke to reveal the Gender and it was very pink!!!!

Little Man in his highchair at lunch.

We are all so pleased for them and cannot wait to welcome the new arrival into the family.  

I will try and post everyday this week as I am slipping with things mainly due to the days flying by!!!!  I hope you lovely lot have a fantastic week.

Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx

Coco has had a slow day today in her basket next to my desk!

Hello Autumn!

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Autumn!

“Don’t you love New York in the Fall?  It makes me want to buy school supplies.  I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”

Nora Ephron from my favourite Film “You’ve Got Mail”!

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Okay so can someone explain to me where this year has gone please? I cannot believe that it is September already and people are already starting to talk about Christmas and things are starting to appear in the shops even before Halloween!

However I must hold my hands up to having already booked the tickets for Great Central Railway to see Santa on the train with the children at Christmas!!  But if I had not booked already then we would not be able to get the date we like so I am guilty of already booking Christmas things!!!! We had a busy weekend getting the garden sorted and trimming a lot of the plants which have not been done for a while.  We also took out the Box plants that have been in for about twenty years but had developed Box blight.  We have arranged for a tree company to come round and trim the trees in the garden hopefully next week some time.  Our Roofer is coming tomorrow to check our roof and also clean out all the gutters and make sure everything is okay before Winter. We still have some small jobs to do in the garden.  Where the Box was we are going to dig it all over and put some compost in and perhaps plant some spring bulbs in and then in Spring put some new plants in. 

At the weekend the family are out on Saturday at a Truck show and I am dog sitting Coco and Gordon.  Also hoping to get some quilting done and if not then reading.  May also be having a trip out on Sunday but more about that later.  

I hope you lovely lot are going to have a wonderful Week and Happy Autumn! 

Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx

Ladies Who Lunch!

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On Tuesday of this week, Jayne and I were Ladies Who Lunch!  We went to a Restaurant at Alfreton in Derbyshire called “Pesto” which is an Italian Restaurant but they do things a little differently.  They have three menus each priced £1 more than the previous one.  If you go for the most expensive one you are able to pick dishes from all three menus but if you have the middle priced menu you can only pick from that or the cheaper one and if you have the cheapest then you can only have dishes from that one.  You then get to pick three dishes. 

There are many different authentic Italian dishes and the last time we went which was in February in the snow, I didn’t quite get the combination of dishes right!  However this time I did.  I had a small piece of lasagne, some rice balls with beef  and cheese in them and a house salad.  Jayne had the lasagne, pasta with smoked salmon and chicken wings and she shared my salad.  It was really good.

We had a lovely time and we caught up on all the news and also discussed our Book Club book which we read in August which was this :

It was my choice and something that I would not normally choose but it was a really good read.  Very easy to read and the story was great and I will definitely be getting Emily Henry’s other books.  This is what I love about Jayne’s and my book club, trying different styles of books.  So far, when we began in April, we have done really well with the books we have chosen.

The story is about Daphne who is going to marry Peter but just before the big day he calls the wedding off because he has realised that he actually loves his best friend since they were little Petra.  Not only is the wedding cancelled but Daphne has to move out of the home she was sharing with Peter as he owns that.  She bumps into Miles who was living with Petra and who is equally devastated at the betrayal and to help Daphne out offers her his tiny spare room which she takes.  After a drunken night drowning their sorrows they decide to put on social media that they are an item and take a loved up picture which has the desired effect on Peter and Petra, disbelief that their exes are together!  Slowly as the weeks go by Daphne and Miles become friends, however Peter & Petra are detemined to break them apart!  Can they get over the betrayal and make a new life for themselves?

As I say a really easy read but good fun and well written.  This is our book for September :

I obviously saw this book when it came out but was not too sure as to whether I would enjoy it but it is Jayne’s pick for this month and as I said it is all about trying new books that I would perhaps not normally pick for me. I will be starting it this weekend.

Tonight we are at Youngest’s and Fiancé’s home as DH is helping Youngest with his truck and I am with Fiancé and no doubt we will get a Takeaway for dinner, well it is Friday night. 

DH and I managed to get some jobs done in the garden in between showers and me doing the washing as well.  A Box bush that has been in the garden for about twenty years that we did put in when we first moved here has developed Box Blight which affects Box plants and is a fungal disease.  Once the plant has it you cannot get rid of it and just have to dig them up and replace it with something else.  It is in the front bed on the right and is quite big so we have decided to put mulch and compost down and perhas plant some spring bulbs in the area that has been left and then next spring re-do the area and put some new plants in then.  

Over the weekend it is due to be raining so it will be inside jobs to do and there is always plenty of them!  Hopefully Sunday is going to be okay and we can finish the garden.  Have a wonderful weekend whatever you lovely lot are up to and I will see you back here on Monday. 

Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx

Work & “Ber”!

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Well we have been back home for almost two weeks and it was like we have never been on holiday!  It took me all of last week to catch up on our work and Eldest’s work and then home jobs, all the washing and ironing from holiday and then the first week back.  

I went back to our Opticians to get them to change the lenses in my glasses as I was not getting on well with the new style.  He did test my eyes again and I now have a problem with my left eye which he is referring me to the hospital for!  It may be that it could resolve itself or the hospital may not think it is a problem so I am keeping my fingers crossed 

Talking of Hospitals I have been today for my Pre-Op appointment!  I have got to now have my left hip replaced, having had the right one done in 2018.  It has been bad for a while and I started the process of getting it replaced in February last year and have been waiting since then.  This is one of the issues we have in the UK with our National Health.  We don’t pay per treatment/visit but we do pay via our taxes but since Covid when they got so behind on these types of operations and of course new people being added to the lists they are now behind.  I have been waiting eighteen months now and it will be another two months before I actually have the Op.  I am nervous about it but will be very thankful to get rid of the pain and taking pain medication every four hours.  Of course it looks like the Op will be end of October and then it is a six week recovery programme which takes me up to the first week of December!  That is going to be interesting getting everything done for Christmas!  I will not be able to drive until I have had my six week appointment after the Op so I will be relying on DH, The Boys and The Girls this year.  

We had a very busy weekend too.  Friday was Eldest’s Birthday and all the family were here for dinner and it was so nice we were able to eat outside.  Little Man had a great time helping Daddy open his gifts and then getting stuck in to Burger and chips for dinnerbut he loved the Birthday Cake best!  

The above picture was the day they arrived on holiday having got up at 3.00am to leave at 4.00am.  They all went back to sleep while Eldest drove and it was a good plan but they all had a snooze in the afternoon.  We did the same on the way back too leaving by 4.00am and got back home by 12.30pm having stopped for breakfast!  It was a busy weekend on the roads as it is the last few weeks of the school holidays so a lot of people were going away.

The above was on Eldest’s Birthday.  None of us get a look in when Grandad is around with Little Man, he absolutely loves to be with Grandad and be carried around doing things.  Here they  are sat on our steps into the garden!Eldest’s Birthday cake.  I did not make it.  I normally do but I am not able to stand and bake at the moment due to my hip being so painful.

We also had another busy family day on Sunday as well and again we were so lucky with the weather and were able to eat outside.

Monday here was the last Bank Holiday of the year and that has thrown the whole week out with work of course!  DH was with Eldest at the garage doing odd jobs and getting some things sorted for his new ramp going in.  He already has two large ramps and has now fitted a small one which when not in use goes into the floor.  This will be for jobs that just need a quick look and something small doing on them.

Eldest on the fork lift getting ready to take the delivery off the lorry.

Here is the ramp extended.

When not in use they go flush to the floor.

The mat on the desk is another present from us.

His Partner bought him this sign for the wall of the garage.

Here it is in place.

This weekend we are at home and although the weather is not very good we are trying to get the garden tidy.  DH managed to get the grass done last weekend, but we have some weeding to do and some of our plants need trimming.  

Next week begins the “Ber” months, which I think is a great description of the last four months of the year.  SeptemBER, OctoBER, NovemBER, DecemBER!   I do love all the seasons but I love this time of year Autumn going into Winter and of course Christmas at the end of it.  We have some great things coming up in the next few months which we are looking forward to.

If the weather does not ccooperate then we are planning on docing some home jobs inside and also carrying on with the decluttering that I began a few months ago.  I am still aiming to get it finished before the end of the year.

I hope you lovely lot are having a great end of summer and I will see you tomorrow.

Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx

Coco on night patrol!

Holiday Edition of Susie’s Friday Book Club 2025.

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Above are the books I have brought with me on Holiday.  As those who follow me know that along with Quilting, Reading is my other passion.  One of my Aims at the beginning of the year was to do more reading and I have certainly tried, along with also doing our Little Book Club with Jayne and also listening to Boots when I am at Eldest’s working.  So far I have been getting through more books and this has encouraged me to read more physical books as well.  

However at the end of June I went for my annual eye test and my old Optician had retured and the new one said I needed an uptick in my perscription.  However he felt I would benefit from some new lenses which help those who work al day on a computer and then with reading.  They are in fact like a graduated lense.  I decided to given them a try although I was a little apprehensive. Well I have given them a month and I am not getting on very well with them at all.  Of course there is nothing I can do whilst I am in Scotland but have an appointment when I get back to sort them out!  

This has meant that I have not done as much reading as I would have liked due to these goasses.  However I have read Jayne’s and My’s Book Club Book this month which I chose:

Jayne reads my Blog so I will have to not give the game away too much with I loved it! I chose it as it is definitely something I wold not normally pick up but I wanted to be fair about choosing the books to not always have the same genre which I know we can fall into.  My only stiputlation from my point of view when Jayne and I were sorting our Litte Book Club out wa that I would not read any deep or meaningful books such as “The Kite Runner” or “The Tattooist of Auschwitz”!  I am sure they are tremendous books but I read books to escape and that style of book I would not want to read.  This is why I have never joined a book club because whenever I have spoken to anyone in the Club they end up always readinf this type of book!  

Anyway back to ” Funny Story” Daphne is getting married to Peter and they have moved back to his home town, where his parents live and all his old friends, including his best friend from Kindergarton, Petra.  Petra is living with Milkes.  Just before Daphne’s wedding Peter says he cannot marry her as he has realised that he loves Petra and she loves him.  That night he leaves to go on holiday with Petra and asks Daphne to move out of the home they share!  Daphne  loses her home and her Fiancé!  She does however meet Miles who offers her his spare room and they both are miserable together.  One drunken evening they decided to take a picture together and post it on Social media and make out that they are now a couple to get back at their horrendous ex’s.  Of course trouble begins going down this path.  

It is a great summer read.  Very easy but well written and I will now be buying Ms Henry’s other books!

When we are home I will go through all my other books I brought away because I also missed World Book Lovers Day on August 9th!   

Hugs & Love Susie xxx