Ta Dah in September

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Oh the excitement - we actually left the house for a short holiday this month.  Almost exactly a year since our last holiday. Not quite such a foreign place this year but we enjoyed it just the same.  I've written a few blog posts about the places we got to visit so I won't bore you with them again, but will just say that we really had a lovely time.  Although she'll never admit it, Coco had a good time on her holiday too.  Staying with someone who lives in the same street as us so she was on home territory and I suspect that a lot of cuddling and spoiling went on in our absence.

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I've not read many books this month.  I'd already read the title that was chosen by our book club so I chose to read one of the other titles from the list which was The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda which I enjoyed and didn't guess the twist at the end and then Things We Never Said by Nick Alexander.  I wondered if this would be a sad book to read, but it wasn't, it made you realise that even when you think you really know someone there may always be another side to a story that you don't know about. The last book that I finished on the last day of the month was The Switch  by Beth O'Leary who wrote The Flatshare.  This was a lovely, easy read and although you can kind of guess what the ending will be, it's a good journey getting to it.

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I returned to doing my Zumba class in person!  Something that would not have warranted a 'ta dah' moment last year but was a huge accomplishment this very strange year.  Of course in my excitement to get there I forgot to pick up my belly dancing skirt so didn't make as much noise I would normally do on the 'Bollywood' routines!

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We went out for a meal four times - all while we were away, it was lovely to relax with a gin and tonic while someone else cooked my dinner for me!

I'm still doing my Spanish lessons on Duolingo, some of the categories are getting a little bit harder now and it's easy to run out of 'hearts' (you are only allowed to make 4 mistakes per lesson which can be a bit stressful if you accidentally press the wrong button and enter your answer before you've double checked it ...

So that's what I achieved in September - did you have a 'to do' list for the month?