I've been out in the garden enjoying the mid-afternoon sunshine and pouring a little rainwater on the vegetables. We have some dutch cre...

I spent a leisurely afternoon making my apron and although there are flaws - the bib is too wide, the ties too long and I had to patch fabri...

I'm not a particularly good sewer but I do my best to make a wide range of things for my home. Today I'm making another apron. I nee...

These are are Rhode Island Red chooks. How could you live without chooks in the backyard? Don't answer, I wasn't really asking. ; )...

I sometimes have people ask me how I fill my days. It's a bit of a patchwork really and each day is different to the ones on either side...

Being the type of person I am I always read about things before I do them, or soon after. When I had my kids, I read everything I could whil...

Generally one loofah harvest will keep you going all year. I harvested most of the loofahs this morning. I have about 18 of them, bot...

I have few regrets when I look back on my old life but one thing I do regret is all the food and money I wasted. I’m very careful now to mak...

I've always been a very keen reader. There was a time when I would read a book every couple of days but that was when I had time to loun...

We’ve had a vegetable garden for much of the past 25 years. Gardening is one of those things that I miss when I don’t do it for a few days. ...