Category Archives: Home & Lifestyle

Well I’m one quarter of the way through the year with this little photo challenge and still going reasonably strong. Following on from last week’s hard yakka in the backyard, we’ve gotten a few tube stock plants from the Greening … Continue reading →

To be quite honest, this morning I woke up and couldn’t think of much to be grateful for. My muscles were sore and stiff from yesterday’s work shovelling pine bark into buckets, carting them up the driveway and up the … Continue reading →

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything about The Great Outdoors Project, most likely because I felt we weren’t really making any progress with it at all. Over the summer months, we’ve given the hole digging for the spa … Continue reading →

They say necessity is the mother of all invention. So what do you do when you have the wreck of an old VW Beetle in your backyard, some pipes and a piece of corrugated iron and you don’t want to … Continue reading →

Yes I could have put up my own curtain rod and hung my own picture frames. But I’m grateful that the man about the house did it all for me, so that I didn’t have to. He’s a bit camera … Continue reading →

It’s a sweltering one in Brisbane today…..the weather bureau forecasted 32 deg.C for a top in my area today. Considering it was 31 deg.C at 10am, there was never any doubt that it would climb higher towards the afternoon. We’re … Continue reading →

Late last year I decided that I would probably make more of an effort to exercise regularly if the gym could come to me rather than the other way around. I’m just not very good with gyms. When I exert … Continue reading →