Dear friends,  I will be taking a blogging break for the next 4-6 weeks to focus on some medical self-care. I have learned recently, throu...

I think many of you know that I've been pursuing a slower, simpler life for more than a decade now, probably since around 2012.  At firs...

LATE AUTUMN... It's late autumn here in the far north of Australia, and though the early mornings are refreshingly cool at around 20-21C...

  I have lately been pondering the physical changes which have come to pass these past few years, or perhaps across the past decade. For a l...

  I have taken to the habit, after baking a fresh batch of delicious scones, of freezing a few for those afternoons when I'm a tad tired...

(my original photo of the front of our home, remade as a watercolour print, April 2026) Home is where I am happiest. Home is where I get to ...