Really interesting and inspiring documentary of a year-long Australian exploration of simple living and permaculture.

I love this hymn.

Climate change is — rightly — the foremost concern of our age. I think about it a lot, as everyone else does. I'm interested in the fora...

We have two kinds of Cabbage White butterflies in England — the Small White (Pieris Rapae) and the Large White (Pieris Brassicae). The Sma...

If you look up what makes humans different from other animals, the world will rush to tell you. Religious speakers and writers like to mak...

As a teenager, I came across a poem that took my fancy. I found it written on a prayer card at the Bible bookshop in Frinton, when I worked ...

Such a sense of the year turning! The feast of the Holy Rood on the 14th is when the Passion Flowers bloom — our neighbour grows these along...

I think probably people outside the UK won't be able to see this yet, though I expect it will eventually find its way to you (I've l...

I rarely go out. The discipline and practise of simplicity and frugality confer many benefits, among them the quietness of a secluded life. ...

Garlic. I recommend it. For about three years now, I and the other women in our household have every day taken some mashed raw garlic, and...