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...

Despite being at home surrounded by what should be my housework, lately I've slipped out of my daily rhythm and life has become a disorg...

Back in the day, before the invention of supermarkets, most of our food was unpackaged and much of it was fresh.  I remember a time when the...

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...

Every morning, on that short walk over dewy grass to our chook house, I am usually aware of a feeling of acute optimism and hope for the day...

When I started living more simply I didn't know what simple living was.  All I knew was that I didn't want to work and for me that p...

In with a lot of other emails I had one from Ceri through the week.  I asked her if it was okay to answer in a post because I think this is ...

We went to the shops yesterday - a trip to the big mall down on the coast. Gulp.  Hanno jumped at the chance to come with me, he's been...

I think snow is falling on the mountains.  Not the rainforest covered mountains I live at the base of but the cold and frosty mountains a ...

I like to think of myself as a modern pioneer.  There have always been mountains to climb and challenges to test me and even though many ...

The weather forecast today is for fine and mild weather.  I am here in my home and I am going to make the most of my time and the weather...

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...