It's a fine line we walk sometimes - that line between having enough and having too much. One of the things that confuses many of us wh...

Madge asked if I'd show a photo of the baby quilt that Tricia's currently making by hand for her first grandchild. She worked on it...

I'm trying to re-establish my routines - the main one that got me through every day before I modified much of it to write my book, but ...

Over the years I've been asked many times what is the key to a simple life. I've thought long and hard about it and I reckon there ...

According to the media, it seems that young families and pensioners are the two main groups feeling the most pressure due to the current fi...

When we first decided to become home bodies and to make and mend as much as we could, I thought we'd be leading a quiet life and the lo...

Today I'm commenting on Cat's recent comment. She asked me to talk about "green guilt". Add your thoughts on this as...

There have been many claims about how our future will be shaped by the end of cheap fuel and increasing prices that will result from that. ...

As you can see, I've changed the template again. My apologies to those of you who visited yesterday while I was working on it. There we...

If you are gardening organically, there is a lot more to it than planting seeds and fertilising. Organic gardening is a holistic method, a ...

My thanks to the men who commented yesterday. It was really great to hear your opinions and learn a little about how you work. ~*~*~ ...

I was asked at a recent workshop what liquid I use to wash up. This is such a painful question for me because I've been chopping and ch...

I like using one product for many different things. It saves time and money. It saves fiddling around with too many ingredients. It's s...

In the most recent gardening post, Patricia asked about how Hanno and I work together and added: "Mainly I ask as quite a number of fri...

I really enjoy living where we live. The climate is wonderful, we can grow food all year and unless we have a bad year, it's neither t...