It was 42C on the verandah here yesterday but I believe it was much hotter out west. I'm very grateful we have an air-conditioned house...

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

It's a beautiful time of year and we're just about to go into winter. The weather has been unseasonal here, as it has been in many ...

There is a cold front sweeping in from Antarctica and the wind is gusting outside making the tall trees that surround our home sway back an...

What a wild and wooly weekend we had here. It rained all day Friday with a total of over 300mm/12 inches of rain. In the afternoon, just af...

It's been a long, dry summer here. The temperatures haven't been nearly as high as those down south, we've had only two very ho...

We've started luring Jamie into our gardening ways. He had his first trip to the markets with Hanno and his mum on Sunday to buy seedli...