Where did September go?!

I don’t know about you, but my September flew by in a flash. I didn’t manage to write a single blog post. The month began with our return to France, the first weekend of September. We hot-footed it down to Castelnaudary, leaving at an ungodly time on Saturday morning, and arriving Sunday evening.

Our youngest son was due to arrive the next day with his girlfriend, driving up from Barcelona. Although they’d been together for over two years, Emily had never visited the French house. We couldn’t wait to show her some of the area’s delights. The icing on the proverbial cake was that our eldest son and his wife were joining us at the end of the week!

Having two extra pairs of hands made it much easier to finish opening up the house and getting the garden and pool ready. This isn’t as daunting as it may sound, because most of our visitors are happy to use the sit-on mower! I think the pool looks particularly tempting in the photo below.

You can see the plane trees along the Canal du Midi at the bottom of the garden. I imagine it won’t be long until they are felled. If you’re interested in discovering why these trees are being cut down, I suggest you read this post!  Where have all the plane trees gone? – Fancying France

Part of the front garden, at sunset, after a return ‘tidy up’!

During the family visit, we had lunch in the Cité of Carcassonne and visited Toulouse. I didn’t take a single photo; I was living in the moment! We were blessed with beautiful weather throughout the family visit, which went by far too soon.

However, I still managed to fit in some reading in September. I loved both books pictured below and would recommend them highly. The Correspondent is set in the States; The Artist in Provence is set in France.

I watched very little television in September, but I was delighted to learn that one of my favourite French series, Call My Agent, was returning as a film/movie. Unfortunately, it didn’t live up to my expectations, and I didn’t even watch it to the end.

I hope you enjoyed reading about my ‘simple’ September, and that you had a lovely September, too.