Now here is a sewing room I'd feel very comfortable in.  It's packed with interesting fabrics and threads and it's organised wel...

Thank you all for the great advice and recipes for elder flowers and berries.  I'll print them out soon and add them to my Homemakers Jo...

I planted an elder tree about six months ago and it's growing nicely.  Elders are not native to Australia and I don't know anyone wh...

The weekend came and went with housework being done, a few phone calls and only one visitor. My housework always just rolls along and curve...

I have been thinking a lot about my life recently, particularly about why I am happy to live as I do while to others it seems like hardsh...

We love eating curry in Winter and I have been making a very tasty chicken curry lately that is easy  to prepare and suitable for the slow c...

There is no doubt about it, when most of us think of living a simple life, we think of the country.  Hanno and I live on the edge of a rura...

From an allotment in London to a small apartment in Sydney, today we see where Samantha works. I can't tell you how how much I love it ...

If there is one true thing I can count on, one thing that reconnects me with what is important and tells me, with certainty, that I am whe...

Today we travel all the way to London UK to visit Dee on her allotment.  This is Dee's workspace, I'll let her explain. Dee writes...