While I was busy drawing sketches of ideas for the design of the front garden, my husband and our boys stood huddled together watching the J...

The importance of knowing the exact location of the water and electricity supplies to one's home, cannot be stressed enough. To suddenly...

There was so much bending and twisting involved in clearing the land of weeds, that whenever I straightened my back, I felt that the invisib...

The advantage of clearing a quarter of an acre of pernicious weeds such as couch grass, creeping thistles, nettles, dandelions and ground-el...

Our previous home, which we'd lived in for a little over nineteen years, had had a postage stamp of a garden to the front and one the si...

There was great excitement when my husband and I, and our two sons drove down the old track towards the bungalow, which was to become our ne...

Sixteen years ago, our family drove past a piece of wilderness, a corner of a farmer's field. It had a fair amount of builder's rubb...