Dear friends, I thank you for your patience. The stats tell me that several thousand of you are visiting everyday during my break so I tho...

This is one of my roses - Summer Memories. Just around the corner from this, Cecile Brunner is flowering her heart out. I'll save her...

The garden we have today looks different to those we had in the past.  We're in the process of preparing for older age while we continu...

Like you, I put a fair bit of time into my home. Doing the housework here allows us to live in relative comfort and to invite our family an...

This is my one and only vase of sweet peas this year. I had to pull them out to make way for the cucumbers over the garden arch. They are...

I sometimes have a quiet laugh at myself for something I've said or written. Yesterday I was reading through an old list of chores I...

The temperature rose to 38C here yesterday which isn't a good start to the season, especially as we have very little water. Still, I di...

It's a constant battle here at the moment keeping the water up to our tube stock in the front garden and the vegetables and fruit out t...

I have a lot to be thankful for, most notably the family I'm a part of. My sons have grown into fine men and they're now both raisi...

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...