Yesterday I received a small number of The Simple Home books that I'm happy to sign and send out around Australia.  The cost of the bo...

As promised, here is the itinerary for our book tour. Hanno will be with me all through the tour and Tricia will fly to Hobart and trave...

There are more than 1500 species of bees native to Australia and where I live we often see a wide variety of bees foraging in the gard...

I'll take the opportunity today to answer an email I received last week from a reader. "Jackie" told me she started on ...

I've finished organising the accommodation for our road trip. We're overnighting in 16 different locations, two nights on a ship,...

If you're in a warm climate, rosellas are a very useful and unusual plant to grow in the backyard. They're a wild hibiscus, grown i...

I love living within the confines of my home and after closing the gate to luxuriate in the isolation I often stay here for days, and somet...

In 2011, the  Australian Women's Weekly  visited us at home to take photos for a feature article they did on me. In one of the photos, ...

I do a lot of baking, it's my preferred method of cooking and I'd say I use my oven four or five times a week. We had to replace ou...

There is a lovely feeling of contentment attached to doing work I enjoy, whether it be paid or unpaid work. When I worked for a living, I a...