Let me start this by saying there are many ways to sterilise food by water bath.  This is how I do it and having been doing it for many yea...

Here in our neck of the woods, summer is a time for stone fruits and jam making.  Hanno found a good bargain at Aldi during the week - premi...

In his books, the late John Seymour tells us that in addition to the many foods found in fields and pastures, like rabbits, berries, nuts an...

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Thank you all for contributing your ideas on how to save money.  I have to confess, we already do most of the things suggested and seeing th...

We have to tighten our belts.  Like many of you, Hanno and I live on a limited and usually fixed amount and with prices rising and new babie...

We had a busy day yesterday with Hanno harvesting lawn clippings for the compost (mowing) and me working on the book.  The grass has grown f...

This time last Monday everything was wet, it had been raining for days, but no one could have foreseen the events that were about to unfold ...

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Before I write today's post I want to let everyone know Hanno and I, and our family, are all fine.  I received an avalanche of emails ov...

All this talk of being a grandma has brought in a couple of emails from ladies who want me to write about empty nests.  I think this might b...

The rain fell all day and the longer it poured and the louder the thunder sounded, the safer and cosier I felt.  I was doing grandma things ...

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I read a very interesting article in the New York Times last week -  Susan Jacoby's   Real  Life Among the Old Old .   It confirmed a th...

I'm always surprised by the number of animals and birds that wander into our backyard.  Some of them are having a stickybeak, some are j...