Travelling around as we have this past year, we're met hundreds of people and thoroughly enjoyed the experienced. Many of the conversat...

I am continuing on from yesterday's post. There were many comments about how we are sometimes treated when we live the way we do, some...

This is a Friday photo feature that anyone with a blog can join. It opens the door to us sharing our lives with these photos and gives us a...

Writing a book and gaining an amount of public exposure because of it has been rewarding but also had a down side. The down side is that I ...

A reader asked recently if I'd write a post about what we eat during the week. I'm happy to do that but I think you'll see by o...

Although during the previous 30 years we'd kept chickens, stockpiled, paid off debt, cooked from scratch, knitted and sewn, I felt a...

The chooks and the garden this week.  Can you believe it? Another week done and dusted. I hope you get the chance to put your feet u...

I want to thank all those who took the time to add a comment yesterday. I am sure they will help the men and women who read them and find s...

Serving good food from your own kitchen isn't just one thing, it's many. And it doesn't happen once, it's part of your ordi...

Yesterday we discussed menu plans, stockpiling and how to get the best value for money when shopping. I hope you read the comments too beca...

I'd like to clarify some things after reading a couple of yesterday's comments. I am sure my long term readers already know this an...

After quite a few weeks of busyness and flapping around here and there, I’m finally back to some kind of normal. It’s good to be at home, kn...

Every so often I receive an email from a reader asking for ideas about something they're struggling with.  Here we have one such query ...