Are apish manners desired by a hostess?

I have a month's worth of notes, reminders of what I was going to write about but haven't. So let's just read the notes without further explanation:
- Mince pies and hot cross buns in the supermarket at the same time. They should be like lions and tigers and never meet.
- Uncle G's farm used for cross-border tractor sales.
- Free goldfish sign at the dodgy house across the road.
- 1910 coffee recipe made with eggs in, shell and all.
- Kim Next Door broke her foot mowing the lawn.
- Man named Orpheus Pledger.
- Someone spent $1 at a sari shop on my credit card and now I have to get a new one.
- My mother and her friend got into a ridiculous argument trying to give each other a twenty dollar note.
- My job is apparently being made permanent and dauntingly busy.

And now we're all caught up on September, except for this:

September books read

* Crossed Skis - Carol Carnac (1952) ★ ★ ★
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* The Spoilt Kill - Mary Kelly (1961) ★ ★ ★
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* The Accordionist - Fred Vargas (1997) (trans. Siân Reynolds, 2017) ★ ★ ★ ★
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* The Authenticity Project - Clare Pooley (2020) ★ ★
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* Vittoria Cottage - DE Stevenson (1949) ★ ★ ★ ★
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