The temperature rose to 38C here yesterday which isn't a good start to the season, especially as we have very little water. Still, I di...

It's a constant battle here at the moment keeping the water up to our tube stock in the front garden and the vegetables and fruit out t...

I have a lot to be thankful for, most notably the family I'm a part of. My sons have grown into fine men and they're now both raisi...

The past week has been lovely here. On Tuesday we celebrated Hanno's 77th birthday with the family over for dinner. Sunny and Jamie are...

I bought our first mobile phone in 1990, three years after mobile calls started in Australia. The phone was Hanno's 50th birthday prese...

I had my eyes tested on Monday and was told I have cataracts on both eyes. They're not bad enough to be operated on yet but he said the...

I was pleased to read a post about teabags on nannachel's blog yesterday as a follow up to my link to how tea bags are made.  Chel wrot...

It can be a struggle adjusting to a simpler life. Some people think that the way I live is THE way and that is just not true. I live as I d...

I've been waiting for the new organic cotton to arrive at Ecoyarns. Last week it came in and Salihan sent me two skeins of Blue Sky...

If you're making the recipes I posted yesterday, please check them again. A couple of kind readers alerted me to two mistakes which hav...

Some readers asked for recipes for the Berliners and brownies I made recently. Here they are: Berliners   Berliners are made using ...

Over the past few days our time has been spent in a steady, slow stream of work here in our home. Meals have been cooked, cleaning done, dr...