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...

I have a good news update on the Blue Mountains koalas we supported with our sewing during the devastating fires in December last year. The...

There was no better place to spend International Women's Day (IWD) than at my local CWA cottage. Yesterday, I went along to give a talk...

It's been a crazy week with many visitors, reading, gardening, rest and a lot of busyness snaking through my days. The highlight of the...

This is a continuation of this story   We set off on our first book tour just before Down to Earth was to be published on 22 February,...

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...

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...

It's been a busy week here although I must point out it's not the same busyness we knew when we were much younger, working, looking...

It was a quiet normal day on Saturday and then all hell broke loose in the evening. Hail started tapping on the bedroom windows, then there...

Most of the time I potter away here doing things that make life easier for us.  Hanno does the same, although he usually works outside. My ...

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

Last Friday morning we set off up the mountain to buy vegetable seeds at Green Harvest. After driving through Maleny we were surrounded by ...

Sundays feel different here, I guess they always have, but the reality of it is that Sunday is just another day. There are no weekends when...