It's been a busy week so far. We're still painting, although not every day, and we probably have another couple of days of work wit...

April, week 2 in The Simple Home For all our new gardeners, there are two things I want you to decide on this week - what you're goin...

After a night with yoghurt draining over a bowl in the fridge, I finished off my yoghurt cheese this morning. I added salt and pepper and s...

April, week 1 in The Simple Home Growing your own food When you’re starting out on your simple life journey, or if you move to a home w...

Happy Easter everyone. 🐣 I'm viewing this screen with 20/20 vision; it's the first time my vision has been this good in 40 yea...

March, week 4 in The Simple Home This is the final week in our food and home cooking month. We've been discussing food shopping, sto...

Very early last Sunday morning, Hanno and I drove over to a town about 30 kms away to buy our first seedlings of the season. 

March, week 3 in The Simple Home There has been a sharp rise in the number of products labelled 'organic' and 'free range'...

What I thought was going to be my second eye operation turned out to be a post-op check. But now, vision in my fixed eye is just below 20/2...

While I've been writing The Simple Home series, you've probably noticed I'm not writing much about what is happening here on a...

March, week 2 in The Simple Home This week we'll focus on shopping for food and I'm guessing that will mean vastly different thin...

It's been a busy week here. We started on another home maintenance project, I cleaned the fridge out yesterday and suddenly I have more...

March, week 1 in The Simple Home Going back to basics This is one of the most important chapters in The Simple Home as it deals wit...

One busy period of our lives ended yesterday with Kerry, Sunny and Jamie moving out and into their own new home.  We wish them the very bes...

I haven't bragged about my grandchildren for a while and I don't want you to think I'm slacking off in that area, so here goes. ...

February, week 4 in The Simple Home This is the last week of our money month. I hope you've sorted out what needs to be done, organis...

We went out to dinner at the local Korean BBQ last night with Kerry, Sunny and Jamie.  The dinner was a little family celebration of Ker...

February, week 3 in The Simple Home The Gender Pay Gap Throughout the developed world, there is a significant difference between what m...

After 50 years of wearing glasses, soon they'll be off, for good. This is the first post I've written since my eye surgery an...

February, week 2 in The Simple Home While I knew from a young age that I would work when I was older, it didn’t occur to me until much la...

I meant to show you Sunny's sesame plants the other day when I did the herb post. We started growing them in the bush house when a ...

One of the many ways to cut costs in your kitchen garden is to take herb cuttings. I do it at this time of year but you should do a bit of ...

February, week 1 in The Simple Home We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.   Winston Churchill Hanno and...

I'm making a lamp skirt to cover a very drab beige lamp shade in our lounge room. The fringe will be at the bottom and the green cott...

Hello everyone.  Last year I developed an online blogging course and had great success with it.  It's a course for beginners, or blogge...

January, week 4 in  The Simple Home This is the final post for January, so let's recap what we've done so far.  This month has be...

I think this is the most significant group of reads I've collected and presented to you so far.  One site here has been life changing f...

I know many of you will already be doing this, or at least know about it, but cooking in a saucepan with a steamer on top is a frugal and n...

Good morning friends. The lovely Ben at Penguin has given me two The Simple Home books to give away.  I'll give one away in Ju...

January, week 3 in  The Simple Home Thinking back on all the houses I've lived in as an adult, I've never walked into one that wa...

It's heart warming to see knitters around the world clicking away on their projects and taking a photo  or two so we can enjoy their w...

I took advantage of the Aldi special on cucumbers this week and bought 10 continental cucumbers for 79 cents each. It's good to sto...

January, week 2 in The Simple Home This is another of those topics where there will be vast differences in the way all of us do things. ...

I send warm wishes to my friends in California where deadly mudslides have cause such heartache.  Indeed, wherever you are in the wor...

I've been very pleased to read how you're organising yourselves with the help of various calendars, reminders and organisational to...

January, week 1 in  The Simple Home Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.  ~ Abrah...

I thought I'd write a post to introduce my main 2018 project of strolling through The Simple Home book. It's almost two years sinc...