Well. It seems an appropriate time to think about water . Now is a most excellent time to consider collecting it. We have three water butt...

One of our most effective forays into living simply has been the decision to share a house. Of course it requires daily discipline and for...

Here in the British Isles it's the season of spring storms. The saying is that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, and ...

Tangles of wire form part of modern-day reality. Here and there are those who escape it, like Emma Orbach , but most of us accept the Electr...

In his book Essentialism , Greg McKeown makes the very good point that "priorities" is a misnomer. It's in the nature of the t...

This last couple of days I took the train along the south coast to visit my daughter Fiona . We had just the best time together, and I had t...

Nancy sent me some more photos of her home, and I thought you'd love them as much as I do. ...

And here she is with a message for 2020.

I wonder if you also read the comments threads that develop from the posts on this blog. If not, I really do encourage you to do so. It'...