This photo from Old Moss Woman’s Secret Garden is of young tomato seedlings growing safely in broken eggshells. She writes “My thoughts are to plant the egg shell with the tomato, cracking the bottom and pulling the shell up the stem a bit to irritate the slugs. I regularly distribute …

How would it be if you had spent all your life under water, and woke one morning to find that you had lungs that needed to breathe air, and limbs instead of a tail? I’ve been watching the tadpoles in my pond over the last few weeks as their little …

The other day I was reading an article on the Harvard Business Review blog site http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/01/sitting_is_the_smoking_of_our_generation.html The article talks about the health benefits of holding “walking meetings” rather than sitting around a table or in a coffee shop. It quotes some pretty astounding statistics, including “…a doctor is quoted as saying …

I have just completed a “9 day Karma Cleanse.”  As one of the components of this exercise I was asked to monitor and eliminate “All expression of dissatisfaction.” I had thought that I don’t whine and complain much.  And I don’t, much, but what I did notice was a strange …

I have realised that since the frogs moved in and had tadpoles in the pond I have less of a problem with mozzies. Yay!! Secretly, I am a little scared of the frogs. As my friend wrote to me “Unpredictable jumpy things are scary. I am amazed you are scared …

I have been out in the garden since 10:30; it is now 6:00pm. What a Fun Day! I got up at 5:00 and walked the dogs, went to collect drinking water and deliver some avocado saplings which had sprouted in the worm farm.  Then I took my shears down to …