I'm very pleased to tell you that it's been raining here for the past nine days. On the last rainy day, the rain gauge overflowed. ...

Not many of us really enjoy housework. I love being in my home but if I look at housework as one big thing - washing, cleaning, cooking, ba...

In the past few months I've been asked by quite a few readers to restart my Weekend Reading. This list is made up of things I've Go...

I finished my bread bag a couple of days ago and it's a nice bag to use. I'm not sure how good it would be in other climates but wi...

This is the followup to an Instagram post about getting rid of my microfibre cleaning cloths. I watched a program on plastic waste hosted b...

Making your own household linens is a BIG step towards a simpler life. You'll use numerous simple living skills such as sewing, recycli...

In the past week, I've had a couple of emails from international readers wanting to know about the native animals caught up in the unpr...

I've got a good job. I rise when I want to, work and rest when I feel like it and every day I look after us and our home. Hanno does th...

A few weeks ago, when Tricia told me that she was going to sew bat wraps and joey pouches for Charles to use in his wildlife rescue work, I...

I've been working on a new loaf - a high fibre white. I usually make either white or rye loaves and I do that because Hanno loves rye b...