The gift this week brought us was rain and it was so badly needed. It meant we stayed in the house, or at least on the verandahs, for three ...

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...

We have so many visitors here that sometimes it feels like we're camping in the middle of Central Station. I'm a solitary soul and ...

Hello my friends. I've had a busy week here working on Christmas sewing, mending, gardening and ripping out most of our tomato bushes, ...

Ginger is one of those plants that fits easily into the kitchen for cooking or making drinks. Many of us use ginger in our cooking or to ma...

You can save quite a bit of money if you learn how to do some basic sewing. Sewing on buttons, mending a torn sleeve, taking up a hem, repl...

If you're in a warm climate, rosellas are a very useful and unusual plant to grow in the backyard. They're a wild hibiscus, grown i...

One of the pleasures of a slow summer is having the time to make cordial. Drinking homemade cordial on a hot day is one of joys of the s...

It's only a couple of days until Christmas and I hope you've got your menu planned and all your goodies ready, or almost ready. It...