When I was a kid crickets used to stop chirping if you stomped your foot nearby. I know this because I remember it vividly, and as we a...

The financial advice industry is broken. Scandal after scandal has made this obvious.  Where can you go for quality, impartial, appropriate ...

So Greece is trying something new. The government swept to power on promises to stop the crippling austerity regime that has not improve...

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When I was a kid one thing our family did quite a bit was go for a drive. We were not driving to anywhere. Usually we would not even get out...

There are great inventions that changed the world : things like paper, refrigeration, the internal combustion engine, the intern...

I recently saw  this very cute craft at Be A Fun Mum : shoebox dollhouse. This is very easy and pretty fast to do, and the end result is fr...

Yay! I can't wait for this. My favourite book in the world, A Walk in the Woods , is being made into a movie , which is awesome, and...

In an early chapter of A Walk in the Woods , as Bill Bryson prepares to walk the Appalachian Trail he reads up on, and obsesses about, b...

Last night the kids stayed at their godmother's place, so we had the house and evening to ourselves. We thought we should make the most...