Living in a hot country, I’ve grown fond of the transitional seasons, with my favourite of all being spring. Autumn is nice too, though, mainly because it doesn’t bring with it the awful effects of spring asthenia. This year’s autumn has certainly been marked by the exact opposite of lethargy and irritability: I didn’t bloody stop!

My main activity was acting as host to a long list of visitors throughout October. My sister and her partner visited, which was a great excuse to celebrate their recent engagement by eating lots of delicious food. Rhea made her annual visit and we spent lots of time outside together, given that last year she had to tend to me and my broken leg. María also swung by for a weekend, which made a great chance to catch up with the ex-Erretres gang and show her even more of my neighbourhood… quite possibly against her will.

It wasn’t just people visiting me, though, as I also made a trip to England on my ever reliable and punctual Ryanair flight. The main motive for this visit was a Lady Gaga concert with my sister, which turned out to be an absolute blast. I arrived at the stadium quite tired, but thankfully Gaga knows that her fanbase is ageing, and made sure that the entire audience had a seat to in which to sit.

To end October, I decorated my apartment for Halloween. It’s not a holiday that I usually bother with, but it would seem that the more you do, the more you feel motivated to do. I thus entered what would be an equally busy November with a living room smelling of burned pumpkin, all courtesy of the obscene amount of candles that I insisted on cramming into the poor thing…