What would an Australian garden be without a wattle or two?  This is Acacia floribunda ( also known as the 'Gossamer wattle' or the ...

Tonight, my 9-year-old daughter and I went to an amazing children's theatre production. Called 'The Grimstones', it is a gothic ...

Hellebores are surely the most demure of blooms.  They hold their elegant heads discreetly downwards, with only the ants privileged enough t...

The landscape here in Australia is bursting forth with the fresh and hopeful signs of a new Spring. The country, in general, has had an espe...

I am working on a small quilt at the moment that I am hoping to be able to show you very soon. Occasionally, I have the need to appliqué te...

I spent today planting new roses into the sticky muck that is an excuse for soil in our town garden. Never have I required a crowbar to plan...

We were home at the farm last weekend to check on our lupin crop. It is the first time we have grown lupins, which is nitrogen-fixing legume...

Life has been so busy lately that I don't know if I'm coming or going. My mum would say, "I don't know if I'm Arthur or...

... she works in a fabric shop and is always on the look out for fabric treasures, which she duly purchases, stashes away and posts to me, ...

Outside my window ... it is dark and very cold. The kids went off to school today excited by the forecast of 'snow showers' and it ...