January, week 1 in  The Simple Home Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.  ~ Abrah...

One of the things we did during the blog break was to continue on our quest to make things accessible and easy in our home. I'd been th...

Like you, I put a fair bit of time into my home. Doing the housework here allows us to live in relative comfort and to invite our family an...

I bought our first mobile phone in 1990, three years after mobile calls started in Australia. The phone was Hanno's 50th birthday prese...

I was pleased to read a post about teabags on nannachel's blog yesterday as a follow up to my link to how tea bags are made.  Chel wrot...

I don't know about you but I have a hard time keeping my cook books organised. Often I take them into my work room and after I find w...

It's been comforting to get back to my regular household routines after a few years of intensive writing. Once established, rhythms and...

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...

So far we've changed our mindset, or are working on it, we're tracking our spending, or starting to, and before we write up a budge...

Hardly any of us have the life we dreamed of back when we had time to dream of perfect lives. When you grow up a bit you realise almost not...

I've made the first steps towards our new season garden. It will be planted up some time in March but before that, we'll have the c...