I've never been what you would call an organised person but now I feel a bit like a quantum physicist - out of the chaos, order emerges....

I have written here in the past about the satisfaction Hanno and I feel by being independent. For us, independence means that we're ab...

It's been a wild and woolly weekend here with a lot of rain and wind. Our rain gauge overflowed so I'm not sure how much we got b...

I received an email recently from a woman who has developed a phobia about cooking from scratch, particularly when it involves cooking meat...

There are certain times of the year and certain tasks we do here that almost define how we live. Spring is one of those times. The beginni...

I haven't shown you around the garden for a while but the truth is it's growing like the clappers. We've had consistent rain ov...

It was our wedding anniversary last week. Thirty one years of life committed to one person. We created two new lives, invested our futures ...

This may seem out of place on my blog but I would like to help my sister, Tricia, sell her home. That's it above and it's in the Bl...

I'd been thinking about it for a while and as Hanno was away last night I decided that it was time to have a no electricity night. I wa...

I didn't blog about this when we were in the thick of it because I didn't understand fully what had just happened. I thought it wa...