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Plastic Free July: Choose bar soap
Long ago, when I lived in Durban, a friend and I would go for coffee in the Botanic Gardens. We would picnic: a flask of espresso and...
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Jul 26, 20213 min read


The week's events...
It has been a stressful week here. The stories I think about are these: the men who died, crushed by falling beer barrels, looting a...
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Jul 19, 20213 min read


Art in Nature
My Instagram and Facebook feeds are full of soap: how to make it, how to use it, what goes into it. And they are also full of Soap. The...
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Jul 12, 20212 min read


Self care and connecting to the past.
With opportunities for foreign holidays being limited this year, our family sat down and made a wish list of travel destinations. My...
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Jul 5, 20212 min read


Using seaweed in skincare products is something I would like to explore further.....
It’s taken a while to warm up here on Lismore. The summer hasn’t arrived according to the calendar and in the past two weeks we’ve had...
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May 31, 20212 min read
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