Thank you all for your kind messages of support.  We will all miss Bernadette very much. ``````````````````````````````````````````````...

I made a new batch of soap on the weekend.  It's the olive, rice bran, coconut oils mix I usually make but soap may be made with many di...

Living this simple life is quite different to how I imagined it would be.  When we first changed our spending habits, stopped buying stuf...

I think we're are gaining ground.  There has been a shift away from the purchased conveniences of modern living, women and men are begi...

Change is in the air. I can feel it in my bones. Housekeeping, the acts of budgeting, food production, home cooking, cleaning, and caring...

Thankfully, things are slowly starting to get back to normal after about six months of chaos, shopping, reorganisation, relocation and, at t...

I've had another email asking for help with ideas so, with the permission of the writer, I'm opening this up so we all have a chance...

The work of a simple homekeeper can sometimes be complicated.  I keep changing things, particularly my work spaces.  I love change and look...

 The beginnings of our new season garden. From the outside, our simple house belies the fact that such rich lives are being lived her...

I have a wonderful life.  I work in my community and am praised by one and all for doing it.  The truth is I get a lot more out of it than I...

I grew up in a completely different time.  I was born into a time when even though we were fairly modern, we still did most things in a simi...

We all know that buying disposable products adds not only many dollars to our grocery bill but also to our carbon emissions.  Luckily, disp...

I had a lovely afternoon tea with most of my Neighbourhood Centre volunteers yesterday.  The one day of the year when we get together to soc...