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A few weeks ago I talked about the common practice of maceration in our egg industry. This is the mass killing of male chicks—of no use to the industry since...

I don’t know about your plans for aging but I’m certainly going to keep as active as I can if I live to a ripe old age. I loved this...

This is me meeting my grand-niece for the first time in Sydney this week. She is the most gorgeous wee is and already quite settled thanks to my niece Mariko’s...

My friend Deborah sent me a link to a great video about the French supermarket chain Intermarche selling imperfect fruit and veges which would normally be rejected at a lower...

There are plenty of lemons around at the moment so why not make this lovely lemonade this week. Old-fashioned Lemonade This is such an easy cordial to make up and...

Hands up those who have had to recently retire their favourite jeans? Paul gets so attached to his jeans that he refuses to throw them out even when they have...

I don’t know about you but I just couldn’t watch all of the Farmwatch hidden camera footage shown on Sunday. What a disgrace that this treatment of pigs is still...

Rub-on Coconut Deodorant 1/4 cup of baking soda 1/4 cup of arrowroot 4 Tb coconut oil softened 1/4 tsp essential oil of your choice or none if you want it...

15 simple lifehacks to organise your home I loved this article which gives some wonderfully easy ideas for organising your home. I particularly liked the curtain rod cleaning bottle organiser...

Our fridge stopped working this week, just a month after our washing machine broke down which possibly says something about the life of appliances these days as I bought both...

It’s been a while since I wore a leather jacket but I came across a couple downstairs when I was having a sort out. They’re not in great shape so...

I’m not about to put more pressure on mums than they already have but a new study has come out looking at commercial baby food versus home-made and found that...