My Pachypodium lamerei, which I acquired in January 2009 at only 9" tall, has now grown into a magnificent 53" (1.35m) specimen...

I've learnt so much over the past few years from Solly's chickens. His chooks free range all over our plot and my garden and I&#...

After an extremely cold and harsh winter, we seemed to skip spring and headed straight into above 30°C temperatures. My garden was absol...

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what...

People who have not made friends with the birds do not know how much they miss. - John Burroughs - "Birds and Poets" ::

Hope is a thing with feathers.  That perches in the soul.  And sings the tunes without the words.  And never stops at all.  - Verse...

“The master bedroom is just the beginning of the problems. There is no master in the bedroom. She starts to give you things, ...

I crept out of bed early with the sound of the roosters crowing to one another - 4am - put on the kettle, made my coffee and came to the ...

Just living is not enough… One must have Sunshine Freedom and Flowers! .

Eggs have been called “the cement that holds the castle of cuisine together.”  Eggs, eggs, eggs…..I get six to eigh...