It has been a while – I am sorry – been busy writing and, after a while of that, anything with words becomes too hard to do. I thought I’d …

By produce. This is the basket of capsicums I just hauled in. Four bushes, none taller than 18 inches high, and they deliver such a bounty. I don’t know whether …

It is close enough to be being finished to pop up some photos. You will note in the following that I have carefully not shown the fireplace which still needs …

I might take some photos of the kitchen and put them up. 🙂 I also have a raft of recipes I’ve been toying about with, and general gossip. Sorry I haven’t …

So there I was, sitting in a cab in the middle of Hobart this morning about 7 am, gazing with some noticeable jaw-drop at the skyscraper cruise ship sitting the …

I am here and thriving – but I am in the middle of making the world’s best fruitcake, an intensive 3 days of work, plus a myriad jars of passata, …

I succumbed – the official Sara Douglass Facebook Fan page can be found here. I hope, If you can’t access this, please let me know here. I couldn’t find the publish …

I spent the weekend preserving – tomato ketchup and pickled garlic. Here are the recipes. Tomato Ketchup Either you will like this or you won’t – it is very sweet, …

No, no kitchen photos yet. Sorry. I am waiting on the builder to do the last 10%. I thought I’d update on my progress on the self-sufficiency experiment. I wanted …

I bought in most of the onion harvest some 3-5 weeks ago and they have been in storage since. I planted mostly Cream Golds. I planted 120-odd, thinking this would …