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Thankful

Filed under: Blogs — fionawhaanga at 8:18 pm on Wednesday, June 14, 2017

It is so easy to find things wrong with our lives, be unhappy with what we have or with what we think life has dealt us. The grass is always greener etc etc…..I watch those UK property programmes on TV, thinking I would love to live in London or Edinburgh, or one of those cute […]

WIP

Filed under: Blogs — fionawhaanga at 11:47 am on Sunday, May 21, 2017

It’s all very well having several WIPs (works in progress), it means you can work on what suits you at the time – and how much or little you need to concentrate, but it also sometimes feels like nothing gets finished. Here are a few examples…..(and that’s only the knitting). So this weekend I made […]

Book Review – The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Filed under: Book Reviews — fionawhaanga at 8:56 pm on Friday, May 12, 2017

I recently finished The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. It wasn’t a book I would normally choose, although I did have his name as a suggestion on my very long “To Read” list. I was in the library with Baillie, my 8 year old granddaughter and as we were leaving I decided to choose something […]

Hello world!

Filed under: Blogs — fionawhaanga at 6:44 am on Sunday, April 30, 2017

Here by accident I have always wanted to write a blog. Not that I have anything profound to say, or that I have an exciting life, but I just like chatting. I decided to have a look and see how to start a blog, and here I am by accident. I belong to a couple […]