The best thing about making foccacia are that toppings are only limited by your imagination. Apples and cinnamon? Sure. Pesto? Yep. Fried mushroom and garlic? Why not? It's also very tactile - squishing

Realising I was a bad mother for not seeing my son's band live in ten years - to be fair, they don't play a lot and are terrible at self promotion, and I don't stay up late anymore - we decided to head

The wolf scratches at the wall of my early morning dreams. I have to get up to ease her. She's the flighty one that needs to move. As much as I breath to settle her down she won't hear of it and whines

How quickly we cry "cancel culture" and use it as a way to further political agendas in the name of dubious freedoms? We have a censorship program here on Hive - if the larger community doesn't

This week I've had two Peakd posts go missing - one, a draft on Ted Lasso, that wholesome and idealistic comedy that I'm totally in love with, and a post about a bloody fabulous sunrise on the weekend.

On the way back from Daylesford we stopped for a brief walk at Blackwood Springs (after a coffee in the small town there that took far too long) as we fancied some exercise and maybe some mushroom hunting.

Spiders in Australia are a thing - have you heard? We name some of the bigger ones, that scuttle across the floor at night like rats, and during the day lurk above the shower or the bed. Harry is common

I was never an Elvis fan. Perhaps it was because I never grew up with him. I have stories related to Elvis - my best mate's Dad going off in the coroner's van to 'I Can't Help Falling In Love with You'

The old primary school sat half-swallowed by tea trees, the oval gone to spear grass and rabbit holes with no one to tend it. The groundsmen left it to ruin without an apology, but then, the virus moved

In all my years doing the Hive Garden on Hive - upvoting, reblogging, running challenges - I've never seen in so quiet. This time of year is usually so busy - everyone's battling the seasons, enjoying

Sometimes we forget we're so close to some very, very beautiful campsites, and how easy it can be, especially when it's not crowded during the Winter months. We also hadn't taken the Defender out for almost

I try not to be self-critical about how many series I watch on the 'idiot' box. I did used to feel guilty about it, but then I realised that I'm just a story addict. I read books for the same reason -

I finished Eva Horung's The Minstrels last night. It had potential, but I found it melodramatic and emotionally manipulative. Not my kind of book - it won't stay with me, and I'll forget I ever picked

Oh man it's been a great season for saffron milk cap mushrooms, common in pine forests round here. ON the way back from a trip to country Victoria we stopped past a reservoir and picked a metric ton of

The thing about AI is that no one was sitting around saying, "Oh geez, you know what would really improve music? Making it better than what humans can do." We loved music. We admired the musicians

Daylesford's one of those perfect country towns where you get to enjoy nature, eat good food, and maybe shop a little. It's not far from Melbourne, but far enough away that you think you're going somewhere

The other day I was surfing and I found myself complaining to someone how busy it was. He looked at me and said 'well, it's not as busy as summer', stopping my rant immediately. I laughed and apologised,

Every now and then I glut myself on books - there does need to be a little magic in the air, though, that lands them in the 'reserved' section of the mobile library on Thursdays and Saturdays. Some books

The weekend was absolutely superb - I met each sunrise from Friday to Sunday, and despite the cold, it was just amazing. My son said he'd been at Lake Garda hiring paddle boards and the hire place was

After all the years I've been contributing to the minimalist vibe here on Hive, I've got cause to write about something so awfully unminimalist as to be obscene, and, as hoarding can be, sad. I caught