The Intrepid Reader and Baker: This week...

I'm reading

This week I finished One Winter at the French Chalet by Mandy Baggot, which I reviewed here. I then read In Italy for Love by Leonie Mack. If I think about authors I would continue to read even if I was in a reading slump, then Leonie Mack would be one of those! My review for this will be up next week.

I am all about seasonal reads at the moment, although to be fair In Italy for Love is all about autumn rather than the more familiar Christmas books that you normally would be talking about when you seasonal reads. Today I started A Recipe for Christmas by Jo Thomas. This is a review book but not for a blog tour so it's fun to be able to read something by choice!

I'm watching

Last week I started watching a documentation about the history of Buckingham Palace. It's really interesting to see how the building which is so familiar to us all has changed over the years.

Life

We had a really lovely weekend.

On Friday night we went to a pub where they have a duelling pianos night. There are two piano players and you can just put it in requests and they will play the songs. We sang-a-long, we danced, we had a cocktail. It was a really fun night and we will do it again at some point.

On Saturday we went to a barbecue with friends but then we made a last minute decision to see go and see Joanna Lumley live. It was well worth going to hear her listen to her talk about her years of travel. Without making too much of an obvious pun, it was Absolutely Fabulous!