One thing I really love about the simple life is that it encourages me to slow down and be mindful. I've stopped working on automatic p...

More than anything else, I am a mother and a worker. Shane and Kerry were 20ish, about to leave home to build their own lives, and although...

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...

What a day we had yesterday. We partied like it was 1999. Translation: I renewed my driver's licence for another five years, Hanno took...

In 1948, the first supermarket opened in the UK, Mahatma Gandhi was murdered, Don Bradman and Joe DiMaggio were creating records, the P...

I've been very ill with a virus the past 36 hours. I wrote this blog the other day but couldn't get up to post it. I'll be back...

I make myself busy on purpose. It helps me slow down and live simply. Busyness has always been part of my life. I work better when I'm ...

Here is Hanno bent over planting seeds and seedlings in the late afternoon sun. Not only is March the best time of year for me with t...

One of the pleasures of having a break away from the blog is coming back full of enthusiasm. I miss all of you when I'm not here writin...

We've finally made it to autumn, my favourite of all the seasons. I start looking forward to autumn on the summer solstice, which was D...

The first of this season's vegetable seeds were planted in trays and then I stopped because of the rain. We had a drought in the last s...

Last week I wrote about vegetable garden preparation, maintenance and production but there are many other parts of gardens that are inter...