When my sons were in primary school, there was an anti-drug message aimed specifically at kids to say no to drugs. It was on T shirts, on TV...

I've been thinking a lot about growing old lately. It's something that's never really bothered me before, but seeing H so sick a...

It's been a busy morning here with everyone up at 5.30 to get Kerry on the bus that will take him home. We all had toast and tea and I m...

This is our home. I cannot stress enough that simple living is not about a particular geographical location, it is not something that happen...

We are going on a short holiday soon. It will be a trip on the tilt train to visit good friends in Townsville, about 2000 kms north, in the ...

Just one last post today to show you the birthday cake I made for Kerry, they'll have a slice each for dessert tonight. It's a sour ...

One of the things that's allowed us to live well on little money is our stockpile. That, along with our backyard vegetables, fruit and c...

Here we all are out having dinner last night at the local German restaurant. The boys both ate four courses and it was very interesting list...

I've just returned from a very pleasant lunch with my fellow budgeting course presenters. There were about ten of us. Our parent organis...

I'm sure many of you are wondering: "Why make soap when I can buy it cheaply at the supermarket?" My cold process soa...