The wearing of face masks has been quite a controversial topic in 2020. Some States in Australia mandate the wearing of masks, others highly recommend wearing them and some seem not to care. Indeed, it took months of research and lobbying by medical professionals for governments to even acknowledge that mask wearing might be helpful Continue Reading
These last few years have been like no other – fires, droughts, floods and of course a pandemic that just keeps on giving!! So how can we make sure that we enjoy Christmas this year? We all need a treat of some kind. Of course, the idea of big family gatherings and shopping in crowded Continue Reading
This year was meant to be the start of my retirement. What a year for it! Overseas holiday cancelled, Andrew’s long service leave spent entirely at home, plans for long walks, long lunches and coffee mornings all wiped away by one tiny virus! So, that meant that I had to re-think my idea of retirement Continue Reading
This year has been horrible for many of us, but there have been some wonderful innovations and positive changes to the way we live. People can work from home, talk to the doctor over the phone instead of waiting around in a room with sick people, attend virtual conferences and hold virtual dinner parties! Who Continue Reading
All year now we have been hearing from our political leaders and health authorities about what we can and can’t do to ‘stay safe’ during a pandemic. It seems that every week or so there are new rules about gatherings in homes, in pubs etc., for weddings and funerals and so on. In a country Continue Reading
How are you coping with coming out of lock down? Are you a person who is itching to get out or are you more like me and taking it slowly? After all, it’s not over yet is it? We can’t stay in our homes for ever but we all have a responsibility to care for Continue Reading
Making the switch to DIY Cleaning products for a low tox household can be daunting. However, house cleaning the safer way is important for your health! So it is worth the effort to investigate your options. But, developing your own cleaning products requires a trial and error type of approach and it is the hit Continue Reading
There will always be one or two household cleaners that you will struggle to create for yourself – why- because there are lots of recipes out there and we all have different expectations from the things that we make. My biggest problem was the dishwashing liquid and in fact I have written about that at Continue Reading
How many of us share a birthday with someone else in the family? Although I do know a few families where parent and child share the same birthday, its actually pretty rare isn’t it? We usually have an opportunity to be ‘ king or queen’ for a day each year and enjoy presents and a Continue Reading
How are you Coping? How are you coping in these difficult times? We all deal with troubles in different ways and there will be days through this COVID-19 crisis where we can only see the bad and the ugly. But other days we will see the good!! We have moved through a number of different Continue Reading
