The long weekend provided us the right impetus to clear out some of the overgrown garden and to continue painting the living/dining room. T...

Not a huge amount has been happening around here, and is the main reason for the very quiet blog...can you hear the crickets? Plans are ...

I received a small concrete planter from my Mum. It's very cute and I placed it at the foot of our entry stairs. vintage concrete p...

Looking at our garden bed in the backyard you would be forgiven if you thought there was a lion sleeping there tonight. Wimoweh...wimoweh.....

Heigh-ho the derry-o, a-mulching we will go. Jason sporting a new look this summer - the akubra is his chapeau of choice this season......

Sponsored by Masters Our front garden spring makeover has great promise! A before and after of the garden is a bit premature since we’...

Sponsored by Masters Spring has a certain irresistibility, drawing you outdoors to spruce up patches of garden that have been dormant ...

We had a few old trees lopped today by old Bob the tree lopper. I actually just rang for a quote and Bob turned up within the hour of my fi...

If you had told me at the start of the weekend that I would graffiti our side fence, I would've responded BS! For some inexplicable rea...

Spring is on its way. I know because I have a strong compulsion to wander around the Sow's Ear's gardens...not that they are really...

Love them or hate them...it seems like the concrete planter is having a renaissance of sorts with happy homemaking gardeners. This pair w...

Over the past few weekends, we've been working on our front yard...nothing too drastic, just weeding and clearing out garden beds. It i...

So much for the big plans this Easter long weekend. Gone are the days where I put it out there on the blog about our proposed plans and mag...

I've just read Day of the Triffids for bookclub; a timely read after one of our old native trees was uprooted in the storms that hit Br...

That storm that hit South East Queensland last weekend was a doozy. These 'once in a hundred years' weather events seem to be occur...