Almost all through history, each generation has benefited from the one that has gone before it. What was left behind was built upon by the n...

Hanno and I are always looking for low-tech ways to improve what we do here so when Tricia and I stopped at a thrift shop the other day and...

I haven't shown you around the garden for a while but the truth is it's growing like the clappers. We've had consistent rain ov...

We all use different clocks. Ours at home is more a seasonal time-frame, or one that revolves around meals and sleep patterns, whereas the...

I'm not sure about other countries but in Australia now, if you're in paid work, you'll pay into a compulsory superannuation/r...

I sat down with my knitting last Sunday afternoon and watched the second half of a TV program on SBS called The Grey Tsunami. I missed the...

Most of you know that we live in the sub tropics and one of the reasons we chose this area to live in was the annual rainfall. It wasn'...

I wandered out to Hanno's big shed yesterday afternoon looking for Alice's old trampoline bed.  I rarely go out there, it's Hann...

These past few mornings have been a real reminder that Winter is here and most mornings I sit at my computer in woolly slippers and at least...

Yesterday, Hanno and I travelled down the coast to have lunch with our son Kerry and his lovely partner, Sunny.  Sunny is a chef too and she...

I have been secretly savouring a cookbook that I thought would not only be a rich addition to my recipe collection but also help us all ge...

I continue to have a sprinkling of emails every week asking for tips on how to start living a simpler life or how to continue once the first...

If there is one true thing I can count on, one thing that reconnects me with what is important and tells me, with certainty, that I am whe...