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7 February 2018
Herb cuttings
One of the many ways to cut costs in your kitchen garden is to take herb cuttings. I do it at this time of year but you should do a bit of ...
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5 February 2018
Your money and your life - changing your attitude
February, week 1 in The Simple Home We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill Hanno and...
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25 January 2018
A frugal tip
I know many of you will already be doing this, or at least know about it, but cooking in a saucepan with a steamer on top is a frugal and n...
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4 December 2017
Routines
Every so often I receive an email from a reader asking for ideas about something they're struggling with. Here we have one such query ...
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17 July 2017
Checking our electricity usage
We've been busy here the past week or so. We had plumbers in looking at an ongoing problem, which they finally fixed. A few visitors dr...
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26 May 2017
How to save money in your home
So far we've changed our mindset, or are working on it, we're tracking our spending, or starting to, and before we write up a budge...
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23 January 2017
Plan, organise and knit
We slow down and relax during December and January. The garden produces a few herbs and fruit so it only needs watering, Hanno mows the law...
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5 December 2016
The Great British Sewing Bee
I've never watched Game of Thrones, the Kardasians or a hundred other popular TV programs, but give me The Great British Sewing Bee and...
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21 November 2016
Do you know what to plant?
We've reached the point in our gardening year when we've stopped planting. We still have a fair bit of gardening to do but there wi...
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28 September 2016
A simple life
I think Hanno and I have been pretty succesful in changing our lives from one of stress, expense and disorder, to a life of relaxed content...
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