Sundays feel different here, I guess they always have, but the reality of it is that Sunday is just another day. There are no weekends when...

Gracie, our beautiful Scotch Terrier, will be one year old soon. It seems like only yesterday when we picked her up from the airport aft...

Potatoes are a very popular vegetable in Australia. Those of us of European descent who cook our traditional family food often use potatoe...

The weekend 10 percent discount sale at Ecoyarns for Down to Earth readers was very successful. Salihan at Ecoyarns asked me to pass on...

We've been busy here the past week or so. We had plumbers in looking at an ongoing problem, which they finally fixed. A few visitors dr...

I used to be known as a bit of a dish cloth obsessive.  If the real truth is known, I still am. 🙂 How can you not love something you can m...

We're in the middle of our winter work at the moment.  Now that we're older, it's easier to do most of our garden and outdoor m...

Thank you for visiting me this week. It's always great to see increasing visitors. I'm hoping that with more visitors here, that me...

Good food doesn't have to be expensive or fancy. Given half a chance, I would gladly live on stew, soup, sandwiches, a few Italian dish...

I've had a nice mix of work and leisure these past few days.  I spent time writing an online blog course, I've been lingering in th...