Not many of us really enjoy housework. I love being in my home but if I look at housework as one big thing - washing, cleaning, cooking, ba...

January, week 1 in  The Simple Home Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.  ~ Abrah...

It's been comforting to get back to my regular household routines after a few years of intensive writing. Once established, rhythms and...

Luckily I don't compare my performance to what others are doing. When I look at the forum and see the amount of work some of our member...

What a few days we've had. Everything was going well with the bathroom renovation until the waterproofers arrived and applied a coat of...

Sunday morning 7.30 and I'm trying to re-establish my routines. They used to work well for me in the past but were abandoned when I was...

There was some much needed rain here yesterday. Our small 5000 litre tank overflowed an hour after the rain started.  It was short lived bu...

I've really settled back into my home this week and have been re-establishing routines and trying to find my rhythm again. There was a ...

Happy birthday Jamie, he's four today! He's still in Korea and will celebrate his birthday with his mum, Korean grandma, aunties, u...

The weather is close to perfect at the moment. The evenings are cool, the days sunny, the humidity is low and it makes me feel happy a...

I'm longing to return to a state of relaxed normality but it's been a busy few weeks here. We've all been waiting for yesterday...

Permaculture is a design system started in Australia, originally for permanent agriculture and homesteads, but now the principles have spre...