My birthday flowers were sitting right at the front door to welcome everyone who visited. Thank you all for the birthday greetings yo...

April, week 3 in The Simple Home By now you have probably had enough time to think about what you want to plant and where it will grow ...

Hello everyone. There will be no Simple Home post today but I'll have it up tomorrow.  I had a computer-free weekend while I celebrate...

Gracie has a new toy - a pink pig called Vivienne (Westwood). She took great care with Vivienne the first couple of days she had her but no...

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...