My computer problems have been resolved so I'm back with you.  There'll be no Weekend Reading today because I haven't been readi...

I feel really energised lately and although it's due to the cooler weather and the approach of my favourite seasons, I think housework i...

It's been a busy week here.  Hanno was in the hospital on Monday to have an angiogram. We thought he might be headed for heart surgery b...

On the weekend, I received a message from a reader, "Emma", who is about to leave paid work and will stay at home to manage the f...

Last week, after listening to the ongoing updates about coronavirus, we decided to check our supplies and restock. No one knows what will h...

Not many of us really enjoy housework. I love being in my home but if I look at housework as one big thing - washing, cleaning, cooking, ba...

Making your own household linens is a BIG step towards a simpler life. You'll use numerous simple living skills such as sewing, recycli...

At some point in the morning, without fail, I make our bed. It's an indispensable part of my home making and the comfort it provide...

When we first moved into our home we made quite a few changes. We pulled up carpets, built a new kitchen, added another bedroom and bathroo...

The garden is overgrown with flowers and herbs and the soil is rock hard in places. Hanno has the sprinkler on to make digging easier. ...

It feels good to be starting a new year with a clean and well organised house. If I was still writing for a living I'd also have daily ...

The Christmas feasting is over and we've all but lost the cricket test match so it's a good time to get back to real life and st...

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...