A State funeral today for Mr Yunupingu. RIP Mr Yunupingu. He was one of our great indigenous leaders  and a fine musician. Treaty, the s...

The end of another week and time to take it easy for a couple of days. I hope you have that opportunity too. We'll come back stronger f...

Before we move onto specific subjects such as budgeting, paying off debt, traditional skills, baking, cooking from scratch, organisation, r...

At first, staying as motivated as you need to be to live this kind of life looks like it might be too much. I worried if I could stay o...

Although during the previous 30 years we'd kept chickens, stockpiled, paid off debt, cooked from scratch, knitted and sewn, I felt a...

This is the first post in a series that will revisit the basic elements of simple life. It's about how we live here but also about the ...

I finished arranging dates for the last four workshops yesterday and want to tell you about them straight away. I'm really excited abou...

We had a lovely morning with the CWA ladies over at Beerwah yesterday. I took a couple of photos that I'll show next week. Although I&#...

If you read yesterday's post you may well have your blog set up and ready to go. Let's take a look at content and how to customise...

Yesterday I wrote about blogging and said then: "now we've all got our own printing press sitting inside our computers and we can ...

Thanks to everyone who sent a message about my bruised face. I'm fine and feeling even better today. I think I have the sweetest reader...