Making your own household linens is a BIG step towards a simpler life. You'll use numerous simple living skills such as sewing, recycli...

In the past week, I've had a couple of emails from international readers wanting to know about the native animals caught up in the unpr...

I've got a good job. I rise when I want to, work and rest when I feel like it and every day I look after us and our home. Hanno does th...

A few weeks ago, when Tricia told me that she was going to sew bat wraps and joey pouches for Charles to use in his wildlife rescue work, I...

I've been working on a new loaf - a high fibre white. I usually make either white or rye loaves and I do that because Hanno loves rye b...

We don't go away on holidays anymore but always make sure that the time between Christmas and mid-January is like a holiday.  We both d...

"Why are those pots upside-down on sticks?" - that's the question I'm asked more than any other. The second most aske...

One of my nephews, Charles, is a volunteer wildlife rescuer and he spends a lot of his spare time in the Blue Mountains bush rescuing nativ...

As the final hours of 2019 rolled along, I sat with increasing sadness watching our country burn. Each new day revealed red landscape and s...

I've just come in from the garden on this humid morning and want to pass on a few tips for hot and dry summer gardening. I know there a...

A couple of weeks ago I was asked on Instagram what my connection to Clare Bowditch was because she'd thanked me, as one of many, in he...

This is our new cottage garden. I started it in August and it's growing well but it's not quite finished. We've gone from tendi...

Today, I've written about our Bosch induction stove top, Bosch heat pump clothes dryer and Miele dishwasher. Water and energy efficienc...

Hello sewers. I've started a sewing bee involving recycling old fabric. You can recycle unused old fabric from your stash, an old dress...

It's been a crazy week with many visitors, reading, gardening, rest and a lot of busyness snaking through my days. The highlight of the...

It will be cloudy here today with a minimal chance of rain so I'll be out in the garden planting up geranium Rozanne, a Lillipop Soda P...

I've been working in my garden for a few weeks transitioning from a vegetable to a cottage garden and trying to get everything read...

This is a continuation of this story   We set off on our first book tour just before Down to Earth was to be published on 22 February,...