46 days until Christmas. Easier to do that countdown than ponder how we are so far into November already. Moderately uneventful week. One theatre visit this week to see the UK tour of Mamma Mia which was, as expected, excellent. I've never really considered myself an Abba fan, but you just can't help a little head bobbing when faced with the title song, Waterloo and Dancing Queen now can you? The Mamma Mia Souvenir Brochure I have to do a full five days in work this week - gah. Well, unless I book time off which is possible as I have too much annual leave left as always, but we will see.

Well, here we are. The penultimate month of 2026. No idea how we got here so quickly, but then isn't that always the way these days? I can't give you any exciting updates from my last week as I did practically nothing. After such a busy week last week, that's no bad thing, but when I tell you the most exciting thing I have done all week, aside from booking some more theatre trips, was to head over to Ironbridge for a walk and a visit to Baked Bean Ironbridge for a Cinnamon bun and a latte, and Eley's for a Cheese and Onion Pasty, then you will see why this might be a short post.

I have had a good week. I'm just going to put it out there. Met up with my good friend Abbie on Tuesday for a pootle around Cadbury World (samples may have been consumed), followed by a trip to the cinema with Mandie to watch the pro-shot of Hadestown. DId not know what to expect from it but had seen great reviews so figured it was worth a punt. Absolutely loved it, so much so we are looking to book tickets to the tour next year. Who knows. Maybe this will site morph into Jen Med's Theatre Reviews instead ...

So. Tenth of August. Pretty well a third of the way through the month. I don't know about you all, but to me it almost feels as though it is next stop Christmas. What the heck is going on? A busy old week at work has meant that I have no idea what is happening any more, and no idea what I am doing with my life. A touch melodramatic, I acknowledge that, but still. The tenth of August for heaven's sake! And that means that the days are starting to shorten at alarming speed.

Okay. Who moved July? It can't be over already, surely? Or apparently it can. How quickly is this year vanishing, folks? Bad news is that my list of things to look forward to is rapidly diminshing. I have a couple of theatre trips booked, including a couple of days in the capital, but ither than that - meh. Looking at holiday options so hopefully they will be firmed up soon, but still. The one book I thought I might just still get to this year - Chiltern Kills - has sadly been cancelled so I think, book wise, I may well be done for 2026, which is a strange thing to say, as I really don't see me being able to make Bloody Scotland this year any way other than virtually.

Lordy, lordy. May already. And Star Wars day too. Kind of feel like it should be my national day or something ... Can't believe we have reached this point in the year already and that, somehow, the blog turns ten later this very month. Ten! Ten years of my boring you (probably singular) reader(s) with my inane ramblings and overly long reviews. Who saw that coming? Not me. Apologies ... At least I entertained with puffin and bird pictures too, right?

What a week. I mean, I only had to work for three day so that is a bonus. But what was just a trip to the theatre and a couple of days at home took an unexpected turn when Mandie and I decided to pull our planned weekend away forward. Next Monday is a Bank Holiday in the UK so the place we wanted to go was guaranteed to be busy. Plus the weather forecasts couldn't make their mind up so we decided that, whilst the weather was still in our favour, we would head out Friday instead.

Apparently last Tuesday was World Puffin Day. It would be totally remiss of me not to have recognised this fact by including some of my puffin pics from last year, so that is just what I am doing. I do rather love puffins, daft little boids that they are. I mean, they are super cute, right? Who doesn't love a puffin?

Welcome to quarter two folks, or as it is more commonly known, April. How the heck have we got here already? I mean, really? How? Meh. It's all good I suppose. The first three months have been filled with interesting travel and fabulous books, so life could be worse, right? More fun to look forward to this month as I am going to see Barnum, then more theatre and bookish goodness in May and June, hopefully even a trip to see my lovely, lovely puffin friends, so time passing by quickly is not necessarily a bad thing.

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Okay. So if anyone can explain to me how the heck we are already in February, that would be great. I mean … what happened? January passed in a blur and, if you happen to be reading this on Monday, I have had to take the day off to recover. Actually, it’s because I have a tonne of leave I have to use by the end of the financial year, but poTAYto poTAHto, right?

How have we gotten to the middle of August already? I swear these months are getting shorter and I have less and less to show for them as well. Working week so not a lot has happened, although I did manage a couple of walks, when the temperature cooled enough to make it survivable, and the ducks, moorhens and swans seemed grateful for the company, if a little confused to see me in an evening rather than at seven am.

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