I thought it would take a couple of weeks and in the end it was five long, cold weeks of using our main toilet and bathroom instead of the ...

We've been luxuriating in the new bathroom all week and  watching bears (again ... and again). I feel grateful that the technology we ...

Winter in the chicken coop. I thought the bathroom would be finished today but it's still rambling on. Life is pretty busy with tra...

I don't tend to make up many dry mixes in the kitchen, you know those concoctions that are supposed to be "time saving". I do...

There are many aspects of simple life that come easy to most people but one or two that seem to be more difficult.  The difficult ones tend...

This is Hanno and two other travellers buying pumpkins and avocados at a lonely roadside stall on the road to Toowoomba. We're go...

I've been wanting to review our financial situation for a while now and when the Brexit referendum came up with a surprise "leave&...

The bathroom renovation is slowly coming along. The floor tiles are down now and although I initially thought they were too light and Hanno...

What a few days we've had. Everything was going well with the bathroom renovation until the waterproofers arrived and applied a coat of...

There was not much time for reading this week but here is a small list I hope you'll enjoy. The main one, of course, is the first l...

I feels quite liberating and exciting to wake after a good night's sleep knowing I have the entire day, week, year with no commitments ...