It was delayed a short while but we're almost finished our final renovation project - a new tiled splashback in the kitchen.  I'll ...

Hello friends. I want to take a small moment to thank you for your comments. Over the years I've tried to build the comments sectio...

It's unheard of around here but I've been out three mornings in a row this week. On Tuesday I went along to my GP for a flu vac...

Don't forget my book giveaway. I have two copies of The Simple Home , kindly supplied by Penguin. I'll give one away in June and th...

My birthday flowers were sitting right at the front door to welcome everyone who visited. Thank you all for the birthday greetings yo...

Gracie has a new toy - a pink pig called Vivienne (Westwood). She took great care with Vivienne the first couple of days she had her but no...

After a night with yoghurt draining over a bowl in the fridge, I finished off my yoghurt cheese this morning. I added salt and pepper and s...

Happy Easter everyone. 🐣 I'm viewing this screen with 20/20 vision; it's the first time my vision has been this good in 40 yea...

Very early last Sunday morning, Hanno and I drove over to a town about 30 kms away to buy our first seedlings of the season. 

What I thought was going to be my second eye operation turned out to be a post-op check. But now, vision in my fixed eye is just below 20/2...

It's been a busy week here. We started on another home maintenance project, I cleaned the fridge out yesterday and suddenly I have more...

One busy period of our lives ended yesterday with Kerry, Sunny and Jamie moving out and into their own new home.  We wish them the very bes...

We went out to dinner at the local Korean BBQ last night with Kerry, Sunny and Jamie.  The dinner was a little family celebration of Ker...

After 50 years of wearing glasses, soon they'll be off, for good. This is the first post I've written since my eye surgery an...

I meant to show you Sunny's sesame plants the other day when I did the herb post. We started growing them in the bush house when a ...

I'm making a lamp skirt to cover a very drab beige lamp shade in our lounge room. The fringe will be at the bottom and the green cott...

I think this is the most significant group of reads I've collected and presented to you so far.  One site here has been life changing f...

I took advantage of the Aldi special on cucumbers this week and bought 10 continental cucumbers for 79 cents each. It's good to sto...

I send warm wishes to my friends in California where deadly mudslides have cause such heartache.  Indeed, wherever you are in the wor...

I've come to the end of my blog year and I'll be taking the next couple of weeks off, away from the blog. I keep thinking that the ...