If you're struggling to pay off a mortgage and feeling a bit isolated because of it, read this wonderful thread at the forum. These a...

Forget Martha, meet Patrick, our barred Plymouth Rock rooster. :- )  I'm convinced now that he's a boy. I said on the day he ar...

As many of you know, my book The Simple Life had to be reprinted the day after it was published. I sincerely thank everyone who bought it ...

Hanno bought me an early birthday present - a new camera. :- ) I spent some time yesterday wandering around taking photos and seeing what t...

There are fashions in foods as well as clothes. At the moment the food fads seem to be kale, bone broth, any "new" grain such...

We're eating soup but I haven't changed the bed linen to flannel yet; the sun rises at 6 and night falls at 6; I haven't yet re...

Hello everyone, I hope you're enjoying the weekend.  I've been reading the Australian Writers' Centre newsletters for t...

I'm very pleased to tell you that my book The Simple Life has been reprinted and should be available very soon - either online or at y...

An email arrived last week asking a question that I know a lot of people think about. There are a couple of different parts to this questio...

Hanno has an appointment with a rheumatoid specialist in early May and in the meantime he's trying to get back into his normal routine ...