On Wednesday, I received a parcel of ‘live plants’ in the post, a late holiday offering of five carob saplings…
A couple of years ago, just before lockdown, we bought a block of land, up in the hills of Kinglake.…
As a family, we’re in the process of designing our dream home, a small cottage-y frog-shaped building, made of mud.…
Things are pretty, well, awful. Prices are skyrocketing, with war and floods and fires, the famine will almost inevitably follow.…
Hurray, I invited one of the neighbours over. Round the corner is a lovely woman who works with people with…
Over the weekend, I joined Neighbours United for Climate Action (NUCA) to undertake some ‘mindful weeding’ along the Merri Creek,…
Dear readers, I’ve tried. I set myself up with a challenge last week, to invite a neighbour over for dinner…
When I was young, I was an extrovert. I was that kid that would come up and ask your name…
For a while now, I’ve found my atheism challenged, in a few fundamental ways, but I’m finding the journey to…
On a global scale, the woes of my small family are trivial, but oh goddess, I’m so happy to see…
