Life is bubbling along nicely here. Hanno and I have been decluttering, again, we've had numerous visitors, Jamie spent the day with us...

Sunny, Kerry and Jamie flew back from Korea on Tuesday after Sun Ja's funeral. Thanks to everyone who send kind and loving messages to ...

We heard the sad news yesterday that Sunny's dear mother, Sun Ja, died in Seoul, South Korea, after a long illness. She was a wonderfu...

It's been a very busy week here with no time for blogging. I'm sending out the notes for my writing and blogging workshops today an...

I had a sore back yesterday so all I did was make bread and butter cucumbers, rye bread and some sweet potato soup for lunch. In the mornin...

Over the years we've lived here, I've grown to love the homing pigeons that live a few doors down. You can set your clock by them i...

It was a close to a perfect day in the garden yesterday. Temp 26C, low humidity, the brightest of blue skies and so many migrating birds re...

After a couple of weeks of rain, we now have sunshine and the gentle heat of late autumn. The strawberries are growing well, raspberries an...

It's such good weather here at the moment. The nights are coolish at 15C and the days are warm and comfortable around 28C. The true mar...

Rye flour has always been expensive but now it's expensive and hard to find.  Most places have rye premix but I don't like using ...

After quite a few conversations and hours of thinking about the pros and cons, Hanno and I have decided to keep our vegetable garden going;...

I've been kind of busy here lately with family dropping by, looking after Jamie, winter cooking and baking, gardening and a few small c...

I had a wonderful week away from the blog. Hanno and I were going to work on a project but he had a sore back and I had a sore knee so inst...

March, week 3 in The Simple Home There has been a sharp rise in the number of products labelled 'organic' and 'free range'...

The garden we have today looks different to those we had in the past.  We're in the process of preparing for older age while we continu...

Hanno asked me to pass on his thanks for all the good wishes you sent.  Reading through your comments made him feel better.  He's stil...

Over the past couple of posts and their comments we've shared how we organise our finances by tracking spending, saving what we can and...

Thank you all so much for the love sent in the last post.  It's quite humbling to read it.  😊  I am going to devote some time to getti...