Mojito Serves 2 Enjoy with your favourite person. Cheers to the weekend. Tips on how to grow mint in your kitchen garden.
Mint is the pushy co-worker of the herb garden, the one who wants to be in your personal space. It is therefore best kept restrained within a pot even if you have acreage. Unlike other herbs mint loves water and can tolerate shade. Cuttings of mint can even take root […]
A lot of us don’t consider ourselves green thumbs. In our fast paced, sometimes uncertain world the idea of planting ourselves anywhere let alone planting a garden seems an unrealistic task. However small kitchen gardens are literally a moveable feast. They are both beautiful and practical and a successful small […]
My Grandmother was tall and the ideal housewife and she approached every new day exactly as she had approached the last. You could say her house was like being in a perpetual ground hog day. Every morning at 7 am the breakfast table would be set, the radio would come […]
ANZAC day although a military day is not an occasion to glorify or promote war. It is a day that has come to symbolise the heroism not only of young men fighting ‘for’ our cause but of entire nations building bridges of peace, forging forgiveness and reconciliation after indescribable hardships […]
Inspiration, if you’re lucky, always comes from your family. And for me it is the stories of the generations in the not too distant past that give me gratitude for a simple and peaceful life.
My Grandfather's family were Londoners, blacksmiths and printers at the turn of the 1900s. An existence of grey sooty skies and bitterly cold winters. For them World War 1 brought a call to arms and service at Gallipoli, the Western Front and Mesopotania. The War delivered them the loss of brothers and a future plagued by nightmares. Read more...
