End of September

 And before we had time to appreciate it September has gone.

A decent month here in the East weather wise compared to many parts of the country, no storms and quite mild so the grass kept growing and the patio doors were often open.

My Low Spend September was foiled by paying the second half of my sofa and chair but as I would have paid it in October anyway it doesn't really make much difference.

As promised here are pictures. The colour is a sort of green/gold which hasn't really come out well in the photos. I do like plenty of scatter cushions to liven things up! 3 came with the sofa and chair, 4 from boot sales and two cushion covers bought from Dunelm have been put on old cushions.

I'm very pleased that I moved shelves around so that the space between the leather recliner and new settee was big enough to get through and  I was able to fit in a slightly larger 3 seater as it's now big enough to lay on properly.

My old sofa was just 4 inches too short for stretching out and I do like to stretch out of an evening when I'm reading!

I've got a quote to replace my patio outside of those patio doors next spring. Some of the old slabs will be used round the corner where the old oil tank once stood and the rest will be stored down the side entrance way ready for relaying sometime in the future. Making the path there two slabs wide instead of one and to stop the  mess of weeds/plants/shingle.

Apart from the furniture the rest of spending was just below normal. Only one fill up with diesel for the car which  means there will be two next month and food spending was lower than usual and that just means it will be more next month! No getting away from buying food and diesel and paying Council Tax, electric and phone bills.

My last two books read in September have both been really good. 

Book 7 was  Jane Thynne- The Words I Never Wrote. Fiction. (Published 2020) This is the story of two English sisters  Irene and Cordelia born in the early 1900's. As they grow they are very close always confiding in each other but when Irene marries a German Industrialist in 1936 she is whisked away to Berlin. Cordelia then gets a job as a journalist in Paris. As Europe heads towards war Cordelia begs her sister to leave Germany but with her husband being a Nazi sympathiser it's not as easy as it sounds.  70 years later, in present day New York, Juno Lambert buys a 1931 Underwood Typewriter which once belonged to  well known American journalist Cordelia Capel and finds an unfinished novel.  Juno decides she wants to know more about Cordelia and Irene to fill in the blanks about why the sisters became estranged.

The 8th book of the month, finished yesterday has been a fascinating read. Published in 2022 after Monica Wilde decides to live off foraged food for a year. This isn't as crazy as it sounds because she is an expert . Here is her website  

Luckily she lives in Scotland where many things are available that are not found here in arable Suffolk and it's just incredible what is available if we just knew about. It took me several days to read and I really enjoyed finding out about her year of foraging.

Lots more lovely free library books to read in October - thankfully because in October there are more family birthdays to buy for and a visit to the dentist on Monday - Lovely! Plus all the usual expenses and I'll keep an eye on the heating oil measuring thing and get the tank filled before the end of the month.

Hope you have some enjoyable things planned for the weekend

I'll be back Monday

Sue