By the look of the comments yesterday, there is a need for another bread tutorial. I didn't have time yesterday to answer the bulk of ...

It's strange, isn't it, how we drift through stages in our lives; how we enjoy doing something, then we go off it, and occasionally...

I am an early bird. I love working in the morning. I write my blog as soon as I get up because I can then get on with the things that will b...

Yesterday I did what I tell others to do all the time.  I took a day off and looked after myself.  Around 9am I loaded up my iPod full of mu...

I grew up in a much slower time.  A time when bread was delivered by horse and cart and a ginger beer merchant sold his product, from a cart...

I've been thinking about the one thing that helps the most in keeping us on track here. I know my DIL Sarndra will love this, because ...

I've never been what you would call an organised person but now I feel a bit like a quantum physicist - out of the chaos, order emerges....

I woke, as usual, just before 4, showered, dressed and crept out to the kitchen. There is baking to be done - some cakes for a fundraiser ...

A kitchen is like the engine on a car; it drives the house.  We spend a lot of time in our kitchens preparing meals, making cups of tea, bak...

Thank you all for the great advice and recipes for elder flowers and berries.  I'll print them out soon and add them to my Homemakers Jo...

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've had another email asking for help with ideas so, with the permission of the writer, I'm opening this up so we all have a chance...

I was very busy day at work yesterday with meetings every hour and came home feeling I hadn't done much.  Yet when I came home and check...