Homemade garlic and herb bread. Bread is part of our daily lives here. I make it most days and sometimes we buy a good rye loaf fro...

Now that we are eating our main meal at noon, it can be a bit of a free for all later in the day when we're hungry again. The idea is t...

The Irish folk who read here, and maybe those from the UK too, will know of Maura Laverty, but I have just discovered her. Sadly Maura died...

It's perfectly clear that we're not all the same. We're different ages, with children and without, married, single, straight an...

So far we've gone through listing our values and working out what our priorities are, claiming our home and some of the financial matte...

If you're keeping chickens in the backyard, often you'll reach a point when you have too many eggs. Luckily, eggs are always easy t...

Now that we're looking after Jamie occasionally, it's brought back a lot of memories about how things were when my own sons were ba...

It's Wednesday morning, 10.03, the aroma of homemade biscuits is wafting through our house. Is there any better fragrance? I have a few...

Google "home-based economy' and you get a lot of links about setting up a business at home, earning money from home and a lot of f...