I'm running late today. Not that it's a problem for a woman who never wears a watch and operates mainly by light and dark instead. I...

I'm getting excited about getting closer to starting our gardening season. We've had cooler evening temperatures, soon the humidity ...

Hanno had an operation yesterday to clear up some bleeding in his eye. I'm happy to tell you that he's woken up this morning with no...

Another busy week, this time with more organising and decluttering (again!), thinking about dying, planning for the future, deep cleaning th...

I've gone a bit berserk this week and have been cleaning cupboards and drawers in the kitchen in addition to a lot of other work that HA...

Many things have returned to normal here after our long summer holidays. School and work have started, limited sport is back, shops are open...

This is Mary Rose, a standard David Austin rose. It flowers like crazy during summer as long as I keep the water up. Each day gets busier he...

It's been a kind of quiet busyness here this week. I'm trying to get some sewing finished before I start the simple living workshops...

Things are slowly returning to normal and I have to say I'm really pleased about that.  I don't really enjoy the Christmas/New Year ...

When I made my lifestyle change many years ago, there was a period of about 12 months when I thought about what work needed to be done at ho...