The past week has been lovely here. On Tuesday we celebrated Hanno's 77th birthday with the family over for dinner. Sunny and Jamie are...

I bought our first mobile phone in 1990, three years after mobile calls started in Australia. The phone was Hanno's 50th birthday prese...

I had my eyes tested on Monday and was told I have cataracts on both eyes. They're not bad enough to be operated on yet but he said the...

I was pleased to read a post about teabags on nannachel's blog yesterday as a follow up to my link to how tea bags are made.  Chel wrot...

It can be a struggle adjusting to a simpler life. Some people think that the way I live is THE way and that is just not true. I live as I d...

I've been waiting for the new organic cotton to arrive at Ecoyarns. Last week it came in and Salihan sent me two skeins of Blue Sky...

If you're making the recipes I posted yesterday, please check them again. A couple of kind readers alerted me to two mistakes which hav...

Some readers asked for recipes for the Berliners and brownies I made recently. Here they are: Berliners   Berliners are made using ...

Over the past few days our time has been spent in a steady, slow stream of work here in our home. Meals have been cooked, cleaning done, dr...