I'm running late today. Not that it's a problem for a woman who never wears a watch and operates mainly by light and dark instead. I...

I'm getting excited about getting closer to starting our gardening season. We've had cooler evening temperatures, soon the humidity ...

I've gone a bit berserk this week and have been cleaning cupboards and drawers in the kitchen in addition to a lot of other work that HA...

This is the first foxglove flower I've ever grown. I just love them but always thought our climate was too harsh for them to grow here. ...

My apologies for not posting this on Friday. I had a few things to do yesterday, and it's almost the end of the year and I'm tired. ...

We're learning hard lessons lately. The ongoing drought and coronavirus have taught me that to be resilient enough to bounce back time ...

I've just come in from the garden on this humid morning and want to pass on a few tips for hot and dry summer gardening. I know there a...

This is our new cottage garden. I started it in August and it's growing well but it's not quite finished. We've gone from tendi...

It's been a crazy week with many visitors, reading, gardening, rest and a lot of busyness snaking through my days. The highlight of the...

It will be cloudy here today with a minimal chance of rain so I'll be out in the garden planting up geranium Rozanne, a Lillipop Soda P...

I've been working in my garden for a few weeks transitioning from a vegetable to a cottage garden and trying to get everything read...

Hello friends, I'm back!  I had a few projects in my sights during my blog break. A few of them were a bit airy-fairy and I can't r...

Sunny, Kerry and Jamie flew back from Korea on Tuesday after Sun Ja's funeral. Thanks to everyone who send kind and loving messages to ...

I had a sore back yesterday so all I did was make bread and butter cucumbers, rye bread and some sweet potato soup for lunch. In the mornin...

I've spent a few Saturday mornings on Skype recently chatting away to people I know through this blog. It's been a lot of fun and m...

I intended to post yesterday, and wrote something to accompany a video I made of Gracie running around the house like a ratbag. When I trie...

Rye flour has always been expensive but now it's expensive and hard to find.  Most places have rye premix but I don't like using ...

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...

The garden is overgrown with flowers and herbs and the soil is rock hard in places. Hanno has the sprinkler on to make digging easier. ...

After quite a few conversations and hours of thinking about the pros and cons, Hanno and I have decided to keep our vegetable garden going;...