At home

Chooks, ducks, geese and turkeys rise with the sun and happily spend their days heads down and bottoms up, cleaning up insects, pests and weeds, and fertilising as they go!

Australia’s great love affair with citrus puts them in a category of their own when talking fruit trees for the home garden.

There is nothing like growing, cooking and eating your own home-grown food. It’s good for the body and for the spirit!

In days gone by, home gardens always included a few different fruit trees, a tradition that’s well worth revisiting.

Jackie French takes a few minutes to share the answers to all the gardening questions she is most frequently asked!

Can you create a home from garbage? We have been taking more and more resources from the planet and in recent years there has been a move to address this imbalance.

WalkScore.com The website much loved by Real Estate Agents that cleverly uses Google Maps to analyse neighbourhoods and rate them according to walkers needs. The Dark Mistress loves data, but do we need a website to tell us what we can find out by … gasp… actually walking? Walkscore will tell you what Google knows […]

As a “healthcare consumer” the Dark Mistress has always found an integrative approach to be the way to go – go to the Doctor for diagnosis, and the allied health practitioner to find out what to do about it. Doctors are great at telling you what you need to do, and bad at providing lifestyle […]

Speaking after his recent AGM, Harvey Norman was notably pessimistic compared to previous years “If I get last years figures this year, I will be delighted and I’ve never said that in living memory.” Why so? Discounting in the flatscreen TV market, loss of consumer confidence after the latest interest rate increase, and online shopping. […]

Work has changed since the days your Dad hopped on and on the same bus each day, and sat down to dinner at 6. In fact, Australians are currently working an average of 70 minutes unpaid work daily. Why is this so? Businesses with in-your-face-KPI’s (like retail where the customer is hovering in front of […]

Regular DIY at-home spa treatments can work a world of wonders for your health and wellbeing, without putting a dent in the budget!

Some friends of the Dark Mistress referred to the disappearance of one of their midst form FaceBook as suicide, and her eventual return as resurrection. This got the Dark Mistress thinking… In the future nobody will visit a website for health or any other information – they will just get content feeds through FaceBook. Nobody […]