Never In A Month Of Sundays?

I just cannot keep up with this any more…

September was named Septimus Frugalus by some bloggers as the month in which people were supposed to be Not Spending

Now there are bloggers who are practising StopTober [which may mean no spending or no smoking] or Go-Sober-October [no alcohol] depending where you are coming from]

Then there is No-spend-vember, or Movember [spend less and or grow a moustache]

I have never smoked, rarely drink alcohol, and am perpetually frugal. [And No, I am not growing a ‘tache either!!] However I did return from London with a [free] copy of the Evening Standard tucked in my bag, and now I know this month is

Bob has been making some fabulous sourdough bread all month, and we didn’t even realise this was THE month for it! To be quite honest, all the supply teaching and lay preaching I am doing this month has left me very little spare time for celebrating all these blogfests.

Bob’s sourdough starter is bubbling away in the kitchen, and he keeps turning out the loaves. I am just pottering along in my happy little way, muttering about Mr Gove under my breath, and trying to keep the domestic scene from descending into utter chaos. If I can just get as far as half term without running out of clean underwear, fresh milk, good coffee and loo rolls, I shall be very grateful!