I meant to show you these delightful photos I took, then forgot all about it.  The ducks visited us last week, I was inside when Hanno yell...

Most of the year we grow food in the backyard that will feed us on a daily basis. Whether it's vegetables, herbs, fruit, eggs, or honey...

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...

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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...

We've had quite a history of fruit trees in our backyard. When we bought this place, there was a 30 year old avocado living quite happi...

Most of the work I do here at home is food related with cooking, preserving, baking and growing taking a good slice of my ordinary days. It...

Serving good food from your own kitchen isn't just one thing, it's many. And it doesn't happen once, it's part of your ordi...

Before I start today's post I want to thank so many of you for your kind and generous comments.  It really does make blogging a great j...

I've been wanting to review our financial situation for a while now and when the Brexit referendum came up with a surprise "leave...