Green beans and peas growing together. All photos will enlarge if you click on them. Legumes - peas and beans - are very versatile and valua...

Pebbledash picked it up, I am turning 61, not 62! Thanks Diana. Meryl, one of the volunteers I work with picked it up too. When I mentioned ...

I feel like I own Autumn. I was born in April so Autumn is my season, it is when I feel the most comfortable, the time when I know deep ...

Hello everyone. Please bear with me today while I make some changes to my blog. Hopefully it will be finished by this afternoon.

I keep coming back to it, even though I don't have to, it's one of the daily tasks in my home that slows me down and focuses my min...

I missed listening to the Radio National interview because I got my times wrong. :- O However, Hanno and I have just listened to it onlin...

I have received quite a few emails lately asking about what I call the hierarchy of food. The questions ask how important is it to eat orga...

Pebbledash picked it up, I am turning 61, not 62! Thanks Diana. Meryl, one of the volunteers I work with picked it up too. When I mention...

Some of you might remember that I did an interview with Radio National recently. That program will be broadcast tomorrow, Thursday, at 8.30...

We had a major problem in our kitchen in 2007. Our dishwasher hose started leaking water and before we knew what was happening, the floati...

I spent a lovely weekend here with Hanno. Not much happened, there were a few phone calls and little else. Hanno worked on the garden, cle...

When I turned off my computer yesterday, the counter was on 999,934. This morning it had clicked over to 1,001,100. I can't quite beli...

We had a feeling there would not be many potatoes in that last lot we planted. Hanno dug them up yesterday and we only had about two kilos ...

After receiving a dozen emails in the past day or two about starting a simple life, and having many new readers join us over the month, I th...

It's Wednesday morning and once again I'm looking forward to being at home after two days out at work. My work days are getting bus...