October’s Entertainment

We finally finished RuPaul’s Drag Race and watched All-Stars. Now we’re just waiting for Season Ten of Drag Race and Season Three of All- Stars to hit, but not until next year. They announced the cast of All-Stars this week and I’m very excited. We started watching (well, re-watching) Stargate SG-1 because we love it and it’s still my favourite show and fandom. We’re on season four already – my favourite and the season with Sam’s best hair. The Last Leg is back, Back Off is brilliant and the Crystal Maze has finished.

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We’ve read a lot of books in this house in October – Bethend has been working her way through Ellis Peter’s books and is currently reading Summer of Blood: The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 and Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match. This month I joined the library for the first time since I got back to Wales (so seven years or so). I’ve read the following books by Tess Gerritsen – Under The Knife, Girl Missing, Keeper Of The Bride and Bloodstream. I just finished Playing With Fire which was a much harder read in terms of subject. I’ve also read The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett. Mostly this month Snappy has been reading/chewing on Goodnight Moon by Margaret Brown and Eek! Halloween! by Sandra Boynton.

 

This month I haven’t played many video games. I’ve not really been in the mood. Depression does that to you. I have played some more Shovel Knight through and my wife and I have been playing Age Of Empires 2 HD together. We’re equally matched though and both defensive players so we spend three hours building up our defences, our army, destroy the AI and then fail to destroy each other until it gets too late to play any longer, we call it a draw and go to bed. Almost every game goes this way. I’ve also been playing Ruzzle on my phone, cause I love word games and distractions.

October is OctPoWriMo – October Poetry Writing Month – and I’ve been doing the rounds up each week of the poems I’ve written. Check them out here: Week One, Week Two, Week Three, Week Four. It’s been a rougher ride than usual, but then I always struggle more with October version than I do with the April. I’m always busier and always fighting SAD.

 

We went to Birmingham this month. my wife had a Life In The UK Test that she wasn’t allowed to take in the end. First, because she didn’t have a bank statement and the letter from the bank didn’t qualify as proof of address. Then as she’d already signed in and been refused she couldn’t be put back on. We’ve booked another test for the 4th. Hopefully, the weather will be better. The train ride was good, Snappy was pretty worked up on the way back because he hadn’t had much of a nap and he always gets excited when he goes somewhere different to usual. We went to the SeaLife Centre while we were there to see the new Penguins and our favourite fish the Bowmouth Guitarfish. It was school trip day so it was really busy and Snappy didn’t like that much (remember we live on the edge of nowhere). We enjoyed it though, we always do.

 

It was my niece Poppy’s birthday! She was seven at the end of the month and had a party in our village.

 

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  1. sarah

    My gosh you have gotten a lot of reading done this past month! I am envious, as I every time I sit down to read after the kids have gone to bed, I fall asleep!!

  2. I’m jealous of the books you have read and maybe switch up your usual tactics and go on the offensive for a change!

  3. Melanie

    Looks like you have been busy. I love the sea life centre too x

    • bread

      It has been a busy month and this doesn’t even cover my job either!

    • bread

      This is a bit much even for me but I don’t know I just wanted to read!

  4. . The Sealife centre is great isn’t it. I want to take my children to the one in London. You’ve read far more than me, I’ve not read a book for months.

  5. Elizabeth

    How nice that you both play video games together. I mostly just read in bed staring at the back of my husband’s head as he plays his…. Too bad about the Life in the UK test disappointment. Fingers crossed for next time!

    • bread

      We’re heading back for another test tomorrow. My wife and I play a few together and she liked to watch me play other games – especially ones with good stories.

  6. Jemma Celery and Cupcakes

    I love Stargate SG-1 too! Haven’t watched it for a while though. The Sealife centre is a great day our 🙂

  7. I wish I had the time to read – blogging seems to take up all my time at the moment. I need to get myself organised.

    • bread

      I read on the bus, though recently blogging has gotten way too much to handle on top of everything else.

  8. Jess

    You like Ru Pauls too? YAAAS! Who are you looking forward to seeing most in the All Stars? I kind of wished Valentina would come back again! I honestly had no idea that national Poetry Writing Month was a thing, I’ve only ever done NaNoWriMo which didn’t end well for me haha!

    • bread

      I really wanted Shangela to do it because I want to see how far along she’s come since she was on it last. I used to do NaNoWriMo every year but it stresses me out too much.

    • bread

      I read on the bus and at lunch. I blog while I watch television. I don’t sleep much!

  9. Everyone at work has been talking about the Drag Race programme, but as I don’t have Netflix, I haven’t managed to watch it yet 🙁 I must get around to it! x

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