• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Country Life Experiment

Simple Country Living

  • Home
  • About
    • Start Here
    • FAQs
    • Contact
    • Disclosure
  • Food
    • Mains
    • Desserts
    • Cakes & Biscuits
    • Jams & Preserves
    • Snacks & Treats
    • Drinks
    • Food Hacks
    • Recipe List
  • Simple Living
    • Organisation
  • Garden
  • Country Life
  • Family Time
    • Kid Wrangling
  • DIY
    • Farm House
    • Crochet
    • Christmas

simple living

9 Ways To Make Christmas Shopping Easier

I’ve written before about how we try to keep Christmas simple here on the farm. We try to focus on time with loved ones celebrating the birth of Jesus. No matter how simple we keep it though, one fact remains; in the lead up to Christmas, we have gifts we want to buy for our…

Read More »

Five Ways To Keep Life Simple

Living simply isn’t something that just happens. It’s something that is ongoing, and that you need to work on. While I would never have described our lifestyle as extravagant, over the last few years we have increasingly focused on simplifying our life to give time to what is important to us. So here are five…

Read More »

How To Make A Clutter-Free Advent Calendar

Christmas is getting closer, and my social media feeds are filling up with ideas to make it Pinterest perfect. Elf on the shelf, Advent calendars and other Christmas countdowns are popping up everywhere, filled with little (junky) gifts or chocolates for the kids to have every day in the lead-up to the big day. The thing…

Read More »

What To Spend Your Money On (And What To Save On Too)

We often tell our kids, that you can spend your money on anything, but (and this is a big but!) you can only spend it once. Once your money is gone, it’s gone. Growing up, my parents often used to talk to us about their choices in how they spent their money, and we do…

Read More »

4 Reasons To Start Decluttering

I shared one of my old posts about decluttering on Facebook over the weekend. It’s one I really like (see it here if you’re interested), because it is full of concrete suggestions of things you don’t need in your house or life. Unfortunately though, I really can’t just write an endless list of items that…

Read More »

Kicking A Holiday Goal – Sorting Paperwork Clutter

One of the things I find about trying to live simply and clutter free, is that it takes constant work. You never get to a point where everything is done. I’m actually OK with this fact. Things come into the house. Situations change, and things that were once useful, are no longer needed. The only…

Read More »

How Do You Like Me Now?

I share lots of little projects and organising ideas here on the blog fairly regularly. Usually I try to wait a little while to check that they really are as good as I thought before I share, but generally the ideas are up with in a couple of weeks of me doing them. So I’ve…

Read More »

8 Ways To Prevent Buyers Remorse

I saw a little saying on Pinterest a while back: “The only buyers remorse I feel, is for the thing I didn’t buy”. For some reason it stuck in my head, and I mulled it over in the quiet moments over the next few days. I’m not sure exactly why it stuck there, but I…

Read More »

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Go to page 4
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Hi, I’m Jo

I'm a city girl turned farmer's wife, school teacher, ideas woman, and mum to three country kids. Country Life Experiment is all about simple country living, growing and making our own food, and life on our family farm in rural Australia. Join me as I give country living a try. Read more...
  • Bloglovin
  • Facebook
  • Instagram

Search

Browse by month

INSTAGRAM

At last the fruit in the orchard is ripening! It’s been a long time coming. Picking fruit on warm summer evenings is one of my favourite things. The whole tribe comes down with me and we talk about what is going on and what our plans are as we fill bowls (and tummies) with fresh fruit. Toby has just started high school, so we chatted about how he was settling in while the sun set.
A lovely, easy Christmas with family, good food, a A lovely, easy Christmas with family, good food, a few presents, an afternoon swim and dinner on the veranda as the sun set. Time to stop and be thankful for the many blessings of the year. I hope you had a lovely Christmas too!
We have been mulling over how to fix up the drivew We have been mulling over how to fix up the driveway and lead up to our house for a while. Currently it’s just a dumping ground for old bits of metal and a big pile of mulch, but C would like to create a turning area and put in a garden. First up though, there’s a huge old stump that needs to go. What better excuse is there to have a fire on Sunday afternoon? C and the kids jumped on the quad bike and trailer, and hauled back a big pile of sticks and logs to help the stump burn. Once the fire was going, marshmallows were found and roasted. No better way to spend time together.
Team work makes the dream work. We were asked rec Team work makes the dream work. 
We were asked recently whether we “make” our kids work on the farm. The answer is of course not. Having said that, all three love to help out whenever they can. They all work hard because they want to; because they take pride in working hard and contributing in a meaningful way to our family life; because they love living on our farm and don’t remember life before we moved here. Whether it be planting trees or doing sheep work or feeding animals, they all want to be involved. As a parent, nothing is better than watching them grow in skill and confidence as they work along side you. We’re so glad that we get to spend time with our three, working together.
We’ve had an unexpected addition to the family ☘️🐑. She is a lot easier to look after than the other family members but she does try to escape her yard and head butt people. Poddy lambs are super cute but they tend to think they are a human. Clover the lamb is sure that Meg is her mum. Can’t think why… 🤔🤣
The perfect way to end a long winter weekend: toge The perfect way to end a long winter weekend: together, cooking damper around the remains of the bonfire.

Newsletter

Popular Posts

{Recipe} Spiced Plum Paste
Embossed Foil Christmas Stars
Pear And Ginger Paste
Honey Spice Biscuits
Keeping It Simple | A Space Saving Way To Store DVDs
Pickled Cucumbers

Categories

Footer

Hi, I’m Jo

City girl turned farmer's wife, school teacher, ideas woman, and mum to three country kids. Country Life Experiment is all about simple country living, growing and making our own food, and life on our family farm in rural Australia. Join me as I give country living a try. Read more...
  • Bloglovin
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest

Copyright © 2023 · Foodie Pro Theme by Shay Bocks · Built on the Genesis Framework · Powered by WordPress