This week....

Max

I mentioned last week that I was worried about Max, and I was right to be. It turned out he was a very poorly puppy.

Over the last week, he has been poked and prodded, had surgical procedures and in short, cost us a fortune in vet bills. The reality is that he has a number of conditions which mean it is likely that he will be on medication for life.. We will hopefully find out more this week, but there's every chance he won't have a normal life expectancy. We will given him as good a life as we can for as long as we can.

I'm reading

I am finding that even though I am not working I am not getting a lot of reading done. I am managing to keep myself pretty busy.

Last week I wasn't sure what I was going to start  listening to next, but in the end I decided that it  was finally time for me to start listening to the seventh book in the Seven Sisters series, The Missing Sister, by Lucinda Riley. It is more than 20 hours long but hopefully I will get through it.

I finished reading A Little Place in Prague by Julie Caplin, which really made me want to visit Prague which I reviewed here. I am currently reading The Girl with the Red Ribbon by Carly Schabowski. I really need to get a move on with this book as I have this and another book due for review by Friday, and I am haven't even started reading that book.

I'm watching

I finished watching the first series of Home for Christmas which is a Norwegian series about a nurse who has told her family that she is bringing a boyfriend home for Christmas dinner, so now she needs to find one. There is a second series, so I will watch that in due course.

I started watching Nobody Wants This and the first episode was fun. I will continue with this series for sure.

We also finished watching Kaos. It's such a shame that this series has been discontinued as a it was a lot of fun, and very clever!

We also went and saw Widow Cliquot, a new movie which tells the life of the widow Barb-Nicole Cliquot who was influential in creating the Veuve Cliquot champagne house. I am hoping to talk more about this next week.

Life

Tomorrow is a public holiday so we took advantage of this and my husband took today off work as well to give us a four day weekend.

It was our wedding anniversary on Friday night so we went to a very nice restaurant for dinner. It is at a restaurant which was on the 35th floor of a building in the city, so there was an amazing view. The bathrooms have what is probably the best view from a bathroom in Melbourne.

On Sunday we took a drive down to the Mornington Peninsula where we went for a bit of walk at Arthurs Seat and then onto the Portsea Hotel for lunch. We stayed at a nearby hotel and then today, we went to the Peninsula Hot Springs, which is a mineral springs area where there are around 70 different pools and experiences. It was a very relaxing experience.

Tomorrow we won't do much at all, not even watch the Melbourne Cup, which is why we have the public holiday!

Posts from the last week

Top Ten Tuesday: Trick or Treat

Blog Tour: The Bookshop at the Cornish Cove  by Kim Nash

Blog Tour: A Little Place in Prague by Julie Caplin
Historical Fiction Reading Challenge: November links

Festive Treats: October

Weekend Cooking: What I Baked in my Kitchen in October

Six Degrees of Separation: Intermezzo to The Kamogawa Food Detectives 






I've linked this post to It's Monday, what are you reading? as hosted by Book Date