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 ...

One of the things I struggled with when I first decided I wanted to change the way we lived, was my husband's reaction to the change. He...

What a week we've had here. So busy, but productive and exciting as well. Our vegetable garden is starting to wind down with the early ...

We all use different clocks. Ours at home is more a seasonal time-frame, or one that revolves around meals and sleep patterns, whereas the...

Picture this. It's 5.00pm at the end of a busy day. I grab a cup of tea and prepare to sit down and watch the news on TV with Hanno. I ...

January, week 2 in The Simple Home This is another of those topics where there will be vast differences in the way all of us do things. ...

We had "scheduled maintenance" on our NBN on Thursday and now we have limited broadband and no explanation why. Anyhow, I'd al...

A woman asked me the other day for a couple of tips to keep her husband and teenage son happy at the dinner table. She's been trying to...

I wrote yesterday about my life and how I have changed. I want to take that a step further today and write about how you might simplify,...

I'm looking forward to the weekend. I have three busy weeks ahead when I'll be speaking at our libraries and sewing here in my ...

Here it is! I have two advance copies of The Simple Life. It will be published on 25 March. They arrived yesterday so I quickly took ...

I come from a family of cooks and book lovers. Both my sons and my daughter-in-law are fine dining chefs, my father was a baker. I am a kee...

Putting nutritious food on the kitchen table is one of the tasks a homemaker must repeat every day. I cringe when I think of the many times...

There was a milestone of sorts yesterday. The 200,000th visitor came and went, so who knows where we'll go from here. I don't always...