I’ve spent many hours recently thinking about living here in my home. I’m reading Wendell Berry’s inspirational and powerful book, The World...

One of the things I love about living alone is that I can do whatever I want to do. I've always been independent and a loner but this pu...

I've been battling the bush fires here since Saturday and it's been very stressful. I'm close to the area that was evacuated so ...

For the past 25 years, I've lived here in a very slow lane. I've often written about closing the gate on the outside world so we cou...

I've been organising my home over the past few weeks but this time it's not the same as what I've done in the past. I don't ...

  Hello!  Remember me? This cup of coffee is helping me get back into blog writing again; I've missed it. I think I'm ready to get b...

Hello everyone. This is one of my first steps towards a new life without Hanno.  Most of you know he died on 25 May after a long period of m...