The falling leaves
Drift by my window
The falling leaves
Of red and gold
So go the words of the old song Autumn Leaves.
And so go the leaves following the heat wave in Australia last Continue reading
With Australia in the middle of a heat wave, most advice will be telling you how to keep cool, survive the heat wave and avoid heat stress.
But today I’m going to talk about something a little counter-intuitive.
Keeping cool is important, of course.
Ahhh…summer!
All that lovely fresh produce! Tomatoes, basil, zucchini, capsicums, eggplant, corn, beans, lettuce, rocket…
Did you plant some seeds or seedlings and are now just waiting for your first pickings? (If not, you can still pop some Continue reading
It’s the middle of winter where I live in the southern 
hemisphere.
We’ve just past the winter solstice and today I’ve been to a funeral.
Appropriately, the weather has been cold, gloomy and raining. Continue reading
What do you do when it’s hot? Turn the air-conditioner 
on without hesitation?
What about the cost – to your hip pocket and to the environment?
And what if you don’t have AC? Continue reading