When choices arise...

I am somebody who gets stressed thinking about money. I'm a bit like the shoemaker in the children's book about the rich man, the sh...

One of my end of year resolutions, if you like, was to solve the reading while travelling dilemma. Since I have been known to take month ...

It turns out that I might be .... the weakest link in my household. We were taking a bit of an audit of electricity usage and as it happens,...

some of the plants Once upon a time there was a girl who lived in a small room in a large house in the heart of town. She came wi...

I recently, and luckily only briefly, lost the Nokia mobile phone that I was given in Kenya six years ago. I was devastated, not just becaus...

I visited the Vegan Expo last Sunday, and I have to say I was a little disappointed. I had expected that a vegan expo would be a shining exa...

I read an interesting article in the SMH the other day about public transport. Ken Livingstone, former Mayor of London, was in Sydney to gi...

This weekend was pretty inspiring for me. Sunday was sustainable house day all around Australia. A whole bunch of houses that had either be...

Adolescence can be a painful time. While everyone else's voices go down an octive practically overnight, the late developers are still s...

One of the things I decided to do while Pete was away was to build my own worm farm, or rather - my own worm community. While I am very grat...

The bicycle may have been around for centuries, but as a popular means of transport it is starting to stand on its own two, um, wheels. As p...

Today I reached a significant milestone. I bought my first truly sensible Quakerly pair of shoes. The large buckles are remarkably reminisce...

The women in my family are gardeners. My grandmother's garden was every child's heaven, with pickable fruit, little hideyholes, a mi...

There is such a great sense of achievement associated with riding a bike. I was lucky enough to upgrade recently to an adults bike, and wit...

For those of you who love a second hand bargain, I tell you, I have found the ultimate charity shop! The markets in Kakamega (and many towns...

It was my idea to spend my final week of leave working on an organic farm in the Loire Valley in France, but in the end it was Pete who real...

I went and saw “Blood Diamond” the other day. Although it was a Hollywood interpretation of the horrific violence that is associated with th...

Very few people here in Geneva can call themselves true Genevoise. Most of us are foreigners of some description, and many work in and aroun...