vegetable garden

Tomato 17

Tomato

We just gorged ourselves on a home-grown tomato salad. Unfortunately, they weren’t grown in our home, but my Mum and Dad’s. Above is our entire tomato harvest for this year so far nestled in...

Seachange without changing postcode 20

Seachange without changing postcode

This is the view that can be seen from our bedroom window. The people who bought the block of land next door have subdivided the property and are building a two story, three bedroom...

Seedlings 19

Seedlings

Look what’s on the agenda this weekend. I have just got back from our local nursery where I bought a small tray of the things we found most useful in our vegie garden last...

Halloween-style weeding 15

Halloween-style weeding

I spent a lot of time in the garden today, whipping it into shape ready for vegetable planting. While the kids scrabbled in the leaf litter looking for pill bugs to put in their...

Pi-ahh-no 19

Pi-ahh-no

Amelia started piano lessons on Wednesday. We hired an old bomb of an electric keyboard for $12 for the term – how can you go wrong with that?? Piano practice went swimmingly until we...

On my desk… on a Wednesday 16

On my desk… on a Wednesday

Ink! And brushes! I am not sure what I am going to turn this in to — gocco print? Embroidery? I am still playing with it. It’s meant to be Lily in our garden,...

Surprise Plant 30

Surprise Plant

When we need a little comfort-reading we always turn to Milly Molly Mandy. We chat about what it would be like to live in a little white cottage with a thatched roof with a...

Hello (and squash) 173

Hello (and squash)

Hello! It’s just a few days over a year since I stopped updating here and, predictably, I have been missing it. I feel like it’s time to start up again. Do you like our...