Someone asked for new Gracie photos last week.  Here they are!

Have you had a good week? I've had a lovely week with visitors, multiple family tree discoveries and my housework, and tomorrow we'...

It's been a good week here at home.  I've been researching my family tree again - an ongoing, intermittent project since 1980. Lear...

I'm very pleased to tell you that it's been raining here for the past nine days. On the last rainy day, the rain gauge overflowed. ...

Not many of us really enjoy housework. I love being in my home but if I look at housework as one big thing - washing, cleaning, cooking, ba...

In the past few months I've been asked by quite a few readers to restart my Weekend Reading. This list is made up of things I've Go...

I finished my bread bag a couple of days ago and it's a nice bag to use. I'm not sure how good it would be in other climates but wi...

This is the followup to an Instagram post about getting rid of my microfibre cleaning cloths. I watched a program on plastic waste hosted b...

Making your own household linens is a BIG step towards a simpler life. You'll use numerous simple living skills such as sewing, recycli...

In the past week, I've had a couple of emails from international readers wanting to know about the native animals caught up in the unpr...