Elder flowers - open at the top and still closed at the bottom. Often, when new gardeners get through the first years of vegetable gar...

Feeding the chickens, learning through doing. It's been a big week here for all of us with Sunny's Sushi Isu opening, a visit...

Sunny opened her sushi bar (Sushi Isu) in the Caloundra Woolworths yesterday.  Hanno took Jamie to day care and dropped in to see her after...

Our lives have been revolving tightly around our extended family recently. During a visit from Shane, Sarndra and Alex, we looked after Ale...

Over the past year or so I've been heartened by the emergence of a new kind of magazine. I'm no longer the "expert" on ma...

There are so many different mops around now. Last time I looked, there were cotton mops, sponge mops, rayon mops, microfibre mops, well, le...

Happy birthday, Hanno! It's been a busy but steady week here - nothing we couldn't handle. Now we're looking forward to our f...

My family and home are everything to me. My family define who I am as a wife, mother, sister, grandmother, mother-in-law, step-mother and a...

I wear an apron almost every day. I have about 10 of them in the cupboard, waiting, but if the truth is told, I wear about five favourites ...

This is our garden yesterday afternoon. Those of you who have been reading here for a few years will know that Hanno starts our new y...