I love you people! I love the support you've given me and my blog, it truly astounds me that it's become so popular. A few weeks ag...

This is a continuation of the previous post. Before you rush off to stock your stockpile cupboard, do a bit of research and find out which i...

It seems the price of food and fuel is creeping up every week. Now that many are buying Christmas food and gifts as well, it's a good...

I came across a new blog that you might be interested in. Belinda's Simple Life is fairly new but she has some good ideas and she is a ...

Many vegetables can be grown successfully in pots or containers. I am currently growing a couple of heirloom tomatoes in large pots and I...

The kitchen is slowly coming to life again and I'm really enjoying working there. I'm still getting used to baking in an electric o...

Every gardener needs an assistant, and I have Alice. She follows us around the garden and loves to eat fresh tomatoes and carrots, just p...

When the seasons change from cool to warm, I take the doonas (quilts/duvets) from our beds and take time out to organise our linen cupboard....

There was a time when I would have been extremely bored waking up in the morning and knowing every single thing that would happen to me that...

They arrived just as promised - twelve beautiful bantam eggs. Helen sent them from Perth on Friday, they travelled overnight and arrived in ...

Hello all. I just wanted to post a request for all the apron swappers. We hope all of you have had a lot of fun with this swap and we want t...

I would like to give everyone a gentle reminder and, hopefully, a little strength to not go overboard with Christmas spending. I've rece...

I hope you didn't think I'd jumped ship. The house was a shambles when I woke up yesterday, then when I sat down to my computer to w...

Last week Ann asked if I had two dogs as usually Rosie is in my photos. Here are Alice (left) and Rosie together last night for Ann, and to ...

I'm about to do two posts. This one is to remind my Australian and New Zealand friends that today is the deadline for the apron swap; th...

There is no kitchen here, no floor either. These vital parts of our home should have been installed last Monday and Tuesday but the kitchen ...

Glass jars can be reused many times for your jams. New lids can be purchased when the seal goes. Choose your packaging carefully when you ar...

Yes, it's the second post today but I wanted to write about a few additional things. There are a few blogs I want to recommend you read....

Debt, what a rotten word. Yet it’s what most of us have to sign up to, live with and work through if we are to own our own home. Let me say ...

I had a lovely email from a reader today, an ex-New Yorker who has moved to PA. She's a writer and a contributor to the book Get Satisfi...