Hello September!
After a whole month off I had an action packed August and am more than ready for a chilled and mellow September! We kicked off August with our Silver Wedding Anniversary which both of us forgot – oops! So we had a belated celebration later in the month at one of our favourite restaurants which we save visits for special occasions. It is called El Pati and is set in the old medieval town and garden of a town house in Peretallada near the coast. 
It is such a pretty and eclectic place filled with vintage touches and mismatched patterns, lit with lanterns and fairy lights and with a well thought out menu using local ingredients.
I carried on with renovations back at the casa, with the table and coffee tables completed I had a few fancy tiles left over so picked up this cabinet for a few euros and gave it the same colour as the table and tiled the top. I have a little shelf unit to go above it on the wall. Both will hold outside crockery and glassware and the bits and bats needed for al fresco dining saving the chore of having to run upstairs. The cabinet is going to get some wheels as well so it can be wheeled indoors over winter.
Not content with giving our outdoor space a wash and brush up I ditched the throws from the bed settee, necessary because what started out as an ex display cream sofa is now marked beyond belief despite repeated scrubs. I bought a couple of stretchy sofa covers online, this is the first. Boy they have come on a lot since the old days of horrid nylon stretch. Thick and textured and super stretchy, this one is not quite a perfect fit but is a vast improvement on the throws. The second won’t be here until next month, that’s a more expensive velour finish in the same shade of turquoise. Both of which match the reading chair and footstool we bought earlier this year. 
Finished off this month coming into September with an overnight stay in the unspoilt coastal town of Cadaques where we met up with my sister and her husband. Apart from not seeing family throughout this Covid pandemic, cut off from our families and many of our friends, we also hadn’t ventured far from home and certainly hadn’t had a holiday. It was soooo good. Tried really hard not to blub like a baby and we made the most of every minute. Said sister and hubby are here now in our casa for their second week and it is so lovely just having life back in the house. This house was built for entertaining and their has been scant little of that.
Best of all not too hot, warm and sunny in the day with the ever present late summer thunderclouds hovering. Just so lovely to sit enjoying drinks with the waves on the pebble beach in the background.
Strolls along the seafront the houses backed by the steep hills and those ever present thunderheads that never actually amounted to anything! The town itself is bursting with boho from the little design led shops and stores, to art galleries, bars and restaurants with their inventive use of the weird and wonderful. 
To be expected from the place the Dali called home – his house was actually in Port Lligat and is now a museum but there is a large statue of him looking completely in charge of the place right in the middle of the main promenade.
Meanwhile back at the chalet last Friday I had a friend over for afternoon tea very English, with posh sarnies, pork pies, lemon drizzle, chocolate truffles and of course scones with jam and cream and lashings of tea.
On that note I shall love you and leave you, have more family things to do with my sister before they jet off at the weekend but will be back next week with lots of ideas to take us forward into autumn.
I have plenty of plans afoot now that my creative compadres are back or finishing their jolly hols and children returned to school. Let’s just keep our fingers crossed that this season will see the end of this awful pandemic and we can continue with a return to normality.
