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25 May 2008
Swap News Part Deux
Today I want to talk about some minor changes we are making to the swaps. We have decided that we want the swaps to better reflect our simpl...
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24 May 2008
Swap News
The link to our photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/down-to-earth_swap_photos/ from Annet to Julie (above) and from Glenda to Nancy ...
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23 May 2008
Strong communities, sharing knowledge
There is always something to do in the garden at the moment. I love the photo above, it is of Hanno planting tomatoes with the chooks watchi...
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22 May 2008
Seed swap and pineapples
A wonderful parcel arrived a couple of days ago. It was from my swap partner Tracy. As well as sending some great seeds, she also sent a Dow...
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21 May 2008
Filling the void
After a few days writing about budgeting and money I want to balance the scale today on what really spins my world. I want to tell you about...
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20 May 2008
Last words on the budget
Hopefully this will be the last post about money for a while. Our budget is an important part of our simple life. It gives us a spending pl...
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19 May 2008
Budget - good news
Hanno and I spent two hours on our budget yesterday. We checked old bills and we had our little (solar) calculator running hot. We put 2 and...
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18 May 2008
Re-evaluating and moving forward
There have been many emails and very thoughtful and helpful comments to my previous post. Thanks to everyone who contributed. Every comment ...
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17 May 2008
We are cutting back ... again
We have come to the sad realisation that we are not makings ends meet. In the past month our fuel costs have risen from $120 a month to $150...
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16 May 2008
Taking up the thread - UPDATED
I'm really pleased so many of you are interested in starting to stitch. It's a wonderful way to make beautiful gifts and it will hel...
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15 May 2008
Thanks everyone
I want to thank everyone who took the time to leave a comment on by anniversary post. I was quite amazed at all the comments and read each o...
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And the winner is ...
Thank you to everyone who entered this draw. I'm quite humbled by the number of you who would like to own the stitchery. There can be ...
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A catching up day
Year 2 Day 1 ;- ) I am absolutely overwhelmed at the messages of friendship sent in the previous post. Thank you, everyone. I'll come ba...
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14 May 2008
One year ago today ...
One year ago today I pressed the Blogger "publish" button for the first time and entered blog world. It seems like just yesterday ...
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13 May 2008
Dare to be different
I want to encourage every one of you who choose to live simply to do it on your own terms. There is no rule book for simple living, we a...
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12 May 2008
Let your garden work with you
Here we are, just a couple of crazy kids, about to set off to pick up our chooks on Saturday. I didn’t want to garden yesterday. I was tired...
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11 May 2008
More pure breed chickens - NAMES UPDATE
It's Mother's Day in Australia today. Mother's Day - the one day of the year when we eat strange looking breakfasts and wear mac...
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Shopping Tote Bags
Hello swappers-I just wanted to remind everyone to remember to send me a jpeg photo of their totes as they receive them so I can post them o...
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