I was going through my photos during the week and found this photo of our garden in 2007. We don't grow so much food now and have rem...

It's been a busy year, one of the busiest I can remember, but that's all come to an end now - today and all my tomorrows, will be s...

Our visitors arrive today and we're looking forward to many happy days ahead. The weather here is ridiculously warm for this time o...

My sister Tricia is travelling up from the Blue Mountains to visit us. She arrives tomorrow. She is the one person I've known all my li...

I thought it would take a couple of weeks and in the end it was five long, cold weeks of using our main toilet and bathroom instead of the ...

We've been luxuriating in the new bathroom all week and  watching bears (again ... and again). I feel grateful that the technology we ...

Winter in the chicken coop. I thought the bathroom would be finished today but it's still rambling on. Life is pretty busy with tra...

I don't tend to make up many dry mixes in the kitchen, you know those concoctions that are supposed to be "time saving". I do...

There are many aspects of simple life that come easy to most people but one or two that seem to be more difficult.  The difficult ones tend...

This is Hanno and two other travellers buying pumpkins and avocados at a lonely roadside stall on the road to Toowoomba. We're go...