three vegan childhoods

Posted by Lucy on May 8, 2012

The latest show from The Vegan Option – Born Vegan: from1976 UK TV to the Hebrew Israelites, three very different vegan childhoods. Am listening as I blog, is fascinating :)

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flowers, water, books and sunshine

Posted by Lucy on May 5, 2012
bluebells by the pond

bluebells by the pond

Good reads:

I’ve Got Your Number - Sophie Kinsella -  laugh out loud funny, poignant and wise.

The Bride Stripped Bare - Nikki Gemmell – well written and bold, not for the prudish :)

sunny cherry blossom

sunny cherry blossom

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Toby

Posted by Lucy on April 23, 2012

Just two weeks after Willow, we have now lost Toby too, also aged 13. There he is in the ‘hot place’, so named due to it’s sheltered nature making it a lovely place to sunbathe at all times of year. Happily we’ve all been out there quite  a bit recently enjoying the sun together. I always had the feeling he was ‘standing guard’, though right up into the last week of his life he still  loved a joyous  mad puppy dog roll on the grass as here:

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Willow

Posted by Lucy on April 8, 2012

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Born Easter 1999, passed away Easter 2012. The most recent picture below shows her, as always, involved and interested in whatever we were doing (in this case photographing crocuses). If only I could be as elegant!

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salad in the sun

Posted by Lucy on March 25, 2012

salad

From top right, clockwise: green salad of little gems and leaves from garden dressed in olive oil and lime juice; leftover baked tattie with orange and sunflower seeds; tomato, kidney bean, sweetcorn and chervil; apple,celery, cucumber and cashew nuts in Plamil mayo.

More salad ideas here

chervil going mad in one of the raised beds

chervil going mad in one of the raised beds

boys by raised beds

boys sunning by raised beds

red clover tea and strawberries

red clover tea and strawberries

flowering currant

flowering currant

Today’s smoothie consisted of: avocado, banana, spinach, chia seeds, spirulina, goji berries, OJ and PJ (pineapple juice, not pyjamas…)

Reading in the sun:

Saved by Cake, Marian Keyes

The Double Happiness Company, Anne Aylor

A Room Swept White, Sophie Hannah

Right, back to the sun…

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Easter Aquhorthies

Posted by Lucy on March 18, 2012
Easter Aquhorthies

Bennachie in background

stones

stones

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Spring is here

Posted by Lucy on March 11, 2012
crocus

crocus

It really is. Birds are singing all over the garden and today is mild and coatless.

Vegan Easter has been updated with eggs, bunnies and recipes galore :)

daffodils

daffodils

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pink and purple

Posted by Lucy on March 4, 2012

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Crocus

Posted by Lucy on February 22, 2012

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pancake day reading

Posted by Lucy on February 21, 2012
kind of cruel

kind of cruel

 Too engrossed in the above psychologically superb mystery to make pancakes today (amazon.co.uk or amazon.com) but here’s a couple of our recipes:

savoury basil and poppyseed pancakes

dandelion fritters, there’s no dandelions growing yet but the recipe is just a plain pancake and very adjustable :)

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