Having a blog like this is like having a top notch psychologist on standby, 24/7. When I blow a gasket about something and mention it on th...

Homegrown hot chillies and garlic. To the person who emailed, telling me in no uncertain terms, to categorise my links, I hope you are...

We've lived here for 18 years, longer than we've lived in any other home. Before we arrived here, we'd moved 22 times. We'r...

I used to wear my hair longer when I was younger. I think I was in my late fifties when I had it cut short. Through all my young years I bo...

… it has become too easy in our time to assume that childrearing, housekeeping, and caregiving, along with all the varieties of manual work...

This is one of our local lizards, climbing out of the chicken coop after looking for eggs. This old boy is about 6 feet long from nose to...

If you have a large freezer, a fairly easy way of saving money when buying meat for the family is to buy your meat in bulk from a family bu...

We didn't go over budget during the holidays but there have been many years when we did. If this has happened to you and you're now...

Although I was busy on the weekend with this, that and the other, I wanted to make tomato relish to go with the corned beef I'd just co...

Thank you all for the sweet and thoughtful comments left this week. They make me feel like I'm in the middle of something enriching...