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Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · 1d

Warned her, if the wind changes, her ears will be stuck like that!!

Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · 3d

Autumn brings its own magic.

Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · 10d

Welcome October with your crunchy leaves and marvellous colour palate .

Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · 19d

Happy Hobbit Day everyone! Remember the second breakfast and if a wizard stops by to invite you to go on an adventure, accept!

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Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · 28d

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world. Roald Dahl, from Matilda.
Dahl was born 13th September 1916.

Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · 28d

Sloe time

Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · Sep 8

Cornwall, a beauty that is unforgettable.

Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · Sep 4

Got a bad case of the Cornish blues!

Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · Aug 23

Boher church, in the Irish Midlands, home to an example of some of the finest medieval metalwork in the world in St. Manchan's shrine and to stained glass windows commissioned from Harry Clarke.

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Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · Aug 19

The British Library hosted a glittering panel with Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club coming to Netflix as a film.
Director Chris Columbus joined Osman, Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Sir Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie. For fans of the books or British cinema, this was gold!

Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · Aug 17

For a Heartbeat fan, what could be better than an Aidensfield cake!!

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Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · Aug 16

Garden party with the Banagher Bronte Group launching Let Me In, the Brontes in Bricks and Mortar by Ann Dinsdale and Sharon Wright. Haworth came to Offaly and we could almost catch the fragrance of heather and hear Jane Eyre cry "it is my spirit that addresses your spirit".

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Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · Aug 13

There is something about Oxford. Everywhere you go, there is the exceptional. Entrance to Blackwell's bookshop for example. You just know you are being welcomed into somewhere special

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Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · Jul 30

Oxford a book lover's must, MUST visit!

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Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · Jul 14

When the Co. Laois countryside is silent and summery and stunning

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Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · Jul 6

The inaugural Mullingar Literary Festival has been marvellous. The interview with Lorraine Murphy by Chele Crawley was a highlight for me, celebrating the craft of writing and the joy of reading.

Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · Jul 6

What a joy North Yorkshire is for Indie bookshop choices Pickering and York did not disappoint.

Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · Jul 4

North Yorkshire in mid summer. It's a beauty you can only dream exists until you go there

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Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · Jun 25

Happy birthday to Paddington! Like all of the best people, Paddington celebrates his birthday twice a year, on June 25th and December 25th.
I am sure there will be a marmalade sandwich or two to mark the occasion.

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Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · Jun 21

Still waters at Lilliput

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Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · Jun 19

Jaipur Literary Festival returned to the British Library last weekend and thanks to online links, talks were available to anyone not able to attend in person. My highlights included Jane Ohlmeyer and Diana Darke but the entire weekend was a celebration of culture and writing.

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Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · Jun 7

When someone in the family has a roundy birthday only a bespoke, designer cake will do! Husband obliged with the birthday and his sister delivered big on the cake.

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Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · Jun 2

It's Pride month. Let love be love. And let us be glad of it, no let us rejoice in it. A few poignant, beautiful lines in this poem.

Sinners by Maria Luna
I'm risking so much
by touching
you.
But when our
lips meet
I don't fear
death anymore.
Hell with you would be my heaven.

Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · May 26

On 26th May, Dracula was published in 1897. It was in Whitby, on the Yorkshire coast that inspiration stirred for Bram Stoker. And it was in St. Mary's churchyard that Stoker found the tombstone of a man named Swales. In the novel a man by that name is the first victim in Whitby

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Fiona Robbins @fmsrobbins1.bsky.social · May 22

An old doorway, rural Ireland. No handle, no bell or door knocker, no lock or letter box. Like a magic portal, it seems you must be invited before entry is possible.

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