A follow up to an old post.

Way back in 2013 I wrote a post about children’s books that had a link to grannies.  Here is the post. I was contacted by a woman who had been trying to find a book she fondly remembered and in her search she came across my post which included mention of the book she was…

Memories stirred when cleaning out the computer documents.

A couple of days ago I spent nearly a whole morning working on tidying up documents on my computer.  I had been looking for a particular document on the computer and realised that I had a lot of “stuff” on the computer that I no longer needed.  I guess it was a bit like cleaning…

These made me smile.

A book I borrowed recently from the library was a book of Punch cartoons.  I think my dad used to enjoy the magazine and the cartoons.  There were many of the cartoons that made me laugh but I particularly liked these two, the first as I used to be a teacher and the second because…

Grannies and grandchildren

There are lots of different names for grandmothers and I chose to be called Granny as my children had called my mum granny.  I think that one of the best aspects of my life at the moment is being a granny.  The joy when you visit your grandchildren and they run towards you with their…

Some granny magic, or should I say grandma magic?

There are many words used to designate grandmother; Granny, nana, ooma, nan, nanny,gran, grandma etc but they all have the same meaning. This delightful book tells the stories of various grandmothers of some well known Australian writers and broadcasters. It also tells their stories as grandmothers too. Unfortunately I don’t remember either of my grandmothers…

Abuelita yarns, granny wool

This beautiful wool arrived last week.   I ordered the wool on the internet from a Norwegian website and I realise now that the colours you see on your screen may not necessarily match the real thing.  The yellowy skein is luminous in reality, not at all what I had imagined but I think it…