I love my family. We aren't perfect but we support each other, we show affection and love and there is a warm and comfortable thread th...

Yesterday I wrote about making camembert cheese in the home kitchen. We got to the point where the milk had turned from liquid to curds and...

The last time I made camembert cheese was on 19 May 2007. This is what I said after doing it: The entire process took all day and half...

There is no doubt that living as we do and trying to stay on budget presents us with many decisions. Do we buy organic? Do we buy local? Do...

Every week from now on I'm including links to two regular commenters on my blog in my weekend read post. It helps spread the love aroun...

Just a short post today because I'm a bit busy, but I do have a few things to update you on.  Most readers would know that Sharon w...

After sorting through all the comments, and because some swappers did not communicate with their partners or decided not to participate aft...

I guess that most people reading here every day would be working people - either out in the wide world earning money and/or at home running...

According to the Wikipedia, value adding refers to "extra" feature(s) of an item of interest (product, service, person etc.) that...

When we returned from the book tour, I received emails from two readers eager to know what I bought while I was away. I thought it was quit...

By now all of you should have contacted your swap buddies. Please be sure to check your bulk mail boxes and your spam boxes. If you have d...

My first link is to Gooseberry Jam's blog . Meet Laura, the newest baby born into this lovely family. And speaking of beautiful bab...

It's not just in the kitchen that we can all cook from scratch - we can do it outside too by making our own organic liquid fertilisers....

We have started planting our new season vegetable garden. We do our main planting in March and continue planting until November. Depending ...

Blogger ate some sign ups comments that we are trying to sort out. Here are the additions and changes that we have resolved so far. Pair (...