For the past couple of decades I've been knitting dishcloths. I generally knit some for gifts through the year and I make sure I always ...

On Tuesday night I gave my last ever live community talk. I have had a connection with Noosa Permaculture for about ten years now so I ended...

When I made my lifestyle change many years ago, there was a period of about 12 months when I thought about what work needed to be done at ho...

This is the first foxglove flower I've ever grown. I just love them but always thought our climate was too harsh for them to grow here. ...

My son had to go back to hospital last Sunday with a nasty infection under his arm. He had a melanoma and lymph gland removed in late Septem...

We don't go away on holidays anymore but always make sure that the time between Christmas and mid-January is like a holiday.  We both d...

Now that Jamie has gone back to school I'm getting back to my regular routine. I still do most of my housework in the morning and the s...

I read this article about the downside of microfibre cloths a few months ago and started looking for a new set of dish cloths that I feel ...

August in The Simple Home “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”  William Morris ...

It's heart warming to see knitters around the world clicking away on their projects and taking a photo  or two so we can enjoy their w...

Here at our place Mondays are the same as Thursdays, Thursdays the same as Sundays; each day we get up and usually know what we have to do....

I've been waiting for the new organic cotton to arrive at Ecoyarns. Last week it came in and Salihan sent me two skeins of Blue Sky...

The weekend 10 percent discount sale at Ecoyarns for Down to Earth readers was very successful. Salihan at Ecoyarns asked me to pass on...

I used to be known as a bit of a dish cloth obsessive.  If the real truth is known, I still am. 🙂 How can you not love something you can m...

We're in the middle of our winter work at the moment.  Now that we're older, it's easier to do most of our garden and outdoor m...

Thank you all so much for the love sent in the last post.  It's quite humbling to read it.  😊  I am going to devote some time to getti...