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Living in the North of Scotland, vegan, home educating, dancing, cake eating, writing, woodland walking... no set subject matter here really though :)
The more ancient archives are the old home ed diary starting in June 2005 and evolving on from there.
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things we like
Salt of the Earth deodorant
totally natural and awesome!
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Beautifully pure laundry nuts... better for the planet and your skin... works out cheap too.
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The greatest blender ever...
The Vitamix!
Used daily by us :)
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very powerful for it's size
smaller price than Vitamix
great containers too
The Tribest Personal Blender
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Coconut oil is a youth enhancing, beautiful smelling moisturiser, a healthy cooking oil and a hair conditioner...
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books
Detox Your World: Quick and Lasting Results for a Beautiful Mind, Body and Spirit. A fabulous guide to optimal healthy living.
Buy UK or Buy US
A great little guide to Britain's wild foods
Amazon.co.uk
How to Grow Your Own Food: A Week-by-week Guide to Wild Life Friendly Fruit and Vegetable Gardening - actually a very good, humorous read too. Full of practical advice for getting the most food out of your garden.
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Popular Posts
moo free Easter egg posted on February 3, 2012 
red dragon pie posted on January 9, 2012 
About posted on January 14, 2010 
gourmet raw brownies and crisps posted on January 17, 2012 
Solstice Chocolate Refrigerator Christmas Cake posted on December 22, 2011 
sunshine, sky and yellow leaves posted on October 28, 2011 
Scottish macaroons posted on January 24, 2010 
graze posted on October 13, 2010 
birthday posted on December 16, 2007 
piano metaphor posted on April 24, 2007
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These creamy white buttons make the most amazing white hot chocolate! See Cat's recipe on The Modern Housewife blog.
Author Archives: admin
embalming…
Had a fascinating afternoon yesterday learning all about embalming. This is one of Moonrabbit Lucy’s many areas of expertise, one of her 4 current jobs, and I’d asked her to give us a talk on it :) It was an excellent lesson - we studied veins, arteries, bones, tissues, diseases, tools of the trade, the history of embalming, chemicals used… [...]
fab photography
You know you’re a home educator when you find yourself standing in a dark room with lots of children who keep grabbing you and saying “who’s that?” and “did you just poke me in the back?” It was a really lovely day of photographic activities organised by parents in the HE group – Dad was a [...]
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books and chestnuts
Roasted some of these in the dying embers of the fire last night – delish. Mad shopping trip into town today. All those gifted vouchers well spent by kids. They are now deeply embroiled in the new Graphic novel of Artemis Fowl and Thatcher and Sons – don’t think I need say who bought which [...]
home ed aspie article
Nice article about a boy cartoonist. He is home educated, has aspergers and skeletal dysplasia and his parents also suspect dyslexia. His site of daily cartoons is here – fabulous! Related posts:jollyrisk and dolls houseweaving and maths
Crimbo
Totally neglected to photograph the eight different ice creams (Booja Booja’s ’stuff in a tub’ is very good indeed) Rachel and Ben brought and the six bottles of wine from my Mum and Dad but they are/were gorgeous too Related posts:flower of Scotlandthe fridge postherbish
game of life
Watching the new BBC adaptation of Oliver Twist (which is great btw) last night, we observed Nancy solicit the services of a street scribe to write a letter as she couldn’t read or write herself. With the current shocking school leaving literacy rates could we see a return to such trades? Pushing literacy even younger [...]
gingerbread house
Lovely Christmassy home ed group day out today at Duff House. Lots of kids for mad running about in play area and good look round house. Really loved the textiles exhibit – some amazing pieces. Kids all did the quiz. Charlotte put cheeky teenage answers to some of the questions, pointing out errors and claiming [...]
birthday
Charlotte is now 13 :D She had a good birthday – started very early indeed watching her gift from Daniel – The Simpsons Movie. Later on we went to the cinema to see The Golden Compass – all thoroughly enjoyed that. I had read the book some time ago and thought it captured the atmosphere well. [...]
a solemn phantom, draped and hooded…
Both Dan and I chose him for our Dickens watercolours: Charlotte chose the little boy in the street near the end: Really enjoying the beautiful writing in the book – were all so familiar with the dialogue but not how well worded it all is. Speaking of well worded, were working through the ‘Improve [...]
tra la la la
Everything feeling all Christmassy but relaxed here. I get sleepier as we approach the solstice every year and perk up again in January. Been having some deep thoughts (stop groaning at the back!). Can’t really describe it clearly but it’s about love really. How some of us are being drawn to live our lives in [...]
