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20 February 2014
Starting your simple life
I got some good news from Penguin yesterday. Down to Earth is being reprinted again. :- ) I've received many emails from people who ha...
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19 February 2014
Six beautiful chickens
We are the very happy owners of six new chickens. Kate from Beautiful Chickens brought them to us yesterday afternoon. We had the new wing ...
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17 February 2014
Water wise in the garden
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...
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14 February 2014
Weekend reading
Bread and butter cucumbers. Another week put to bed and now the weekend looms. I hope you take enough time over the next few days to r...
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13 February 2014
The plan was ...
Hanno at the produce store. He's pointing out a little chicken tractor. The plan was to go out for lunch at the surf club and to ...
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11 February 2014
Ordinary days at home
It's been quiet here lately. Sunny and Jamie are over in Korea visiting Sunny's family. It's a wonderful opportunity for Jamie ...
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10 February 2014
Eating our colours
I want to let all my readers know that apart from occasionally linking to my sponsors, I never link to commercial sites. Never. I got an em...
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9 February 2014
RipeNearMe - finding where the fresh food is
I want to share a link to an interesting program that networks local growers and local food eaters together based on proximity. It's c...
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7 February 2014
Weekend reading
We have friends visiting at the moment and have the joy of little feet in the house again. I hope you have joy in your life today as well. ...
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6 February 2014
Growing and hand pollinating pumpkins
I want to move our dependence further away from the shops and closer to food we grow ourselves or find locally. I am hoping to grow enough ...
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4 February 2014
The choices we make
I have been slowly getting back into my rhythm and routines and doing a lot more in the house. It's more like the first six or seven ye...
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3 February 2014
Chickens - homesteading in the urban backyard
We have seven chickens left. The last of our old girls died late last year and now, even though we miss those old characters, we've sta...
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