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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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recipe of the moment
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things we like
Salt of the Earth deodorant
totally natural and awesome!
from Amazon.co.uk
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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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Coconut oil is a youth enhancing, beautiful smelling moisturiser, a healthy cooking oil and a hair conditioner...
from amazon.co.ukor Amazon.com
books
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
three vegan childhoods posted on May 8, 2012 
About posted on January 14, 2010 
piano metaphor posted on April 24, 2007 
Toby posted on April 23, 2012 
flowers, water, books and sunshine posted on May 5, 2012 
sweet things posted on July 27, 2010 
planting log, sitting, eating, stones and sea posted on May 15, 2010 
first ever blog post posted on June 7, 2005 
wild garlic posted on April 1, 2009 
red dragon pie posted on January 9, 2012
Author Archives: admin
let there be light
lots of lights :D Davie had fun with some that the previous owners left us: Looks very nice out there in the dark Then in a strange and wonderful ‘great minds and all that’ moment, we received our gifts from the gorgeous Cat. Davie and me have not worn ours yet so they’ll appear in [...]
cocoa and art
things just floating festively along here… Had a nice time at a Christmas concert in Duff House today. Extremely well behaved school children sang some unusual carols – they were from a school that I attended for 2 weeks when I was 4. Only school I wasn’t really unhappy at that. I do suspect they [...]
bedecked
Bright sunny day – really mild too. Been having some moments of great joy, remembering where weve come from and marvelling at where we are now – in many ways. Sitting here I look out on dark silhouettes of high pine trees over by the loch – they are backed by a silvery blue sky [...]
I got a letter too…
…very touched by the sweet note of apology I received yesterday – despite knowing the new address, they sent it to the old one. At least they are consistent in their incompetence I really hope you have a deep and lasting interest in salt dough (1 cup plain flour, half a cup salt, half cup [...]
cards
Received our first Christmas card today in the post. Decided to get out my cards and address book containing the gradually expanding list – not as bad as the 25 million CB apology letter list but it’s big and scary, nontheless. Advent table has progressed a bit: Continued on from our much earlier study [...]
festive cheer :)
Nice home ed day out yesterday (I left my camera on the usb here so day is not depicted), again a day not as planned but working out well. We went to Duff House playpark first and had intended going round the house but it was closed. We spied much festive goodness through the shop window though [...]
loud chat and mountains
Got the bulk of the kitchen decorating done yesterday… just some little touches to add, but we’ll do that together in the week sometime. Had a great day out today with friends. Davie decided to stay at home and complete some more DIY jobs around the house after he heard we intended going shopping and [...]
good books
Adventures of the Homeschoolers: The Genie in the Teapot by Liz Pilley :) For children aged four years and up. Freya and Heath embark on the ultimate home ed family history project with magic, genies and pirates. I love their mum with her educational slant on the situation and her fear of inspectors :) Nice to see [...]
bones and rubble
Shut some of our home ed children in stocks yesterday. I must take this opportunity to say how shocking it is that so few schools provide this experience for children… stocks should be used more Went for a walk to see some council houses in the roughest part of town. It became so bad because [...]
remembrance
Very good weekend. Yesterday we watched the ceremony at the Cenotaph on TV – kids found it very interesting and insisted on continuing to listen to the rest of it on Radio 4 in the car on the way over to my Mum’s for lunch. Saw various war memorials with their new wreaths on the way. [...]
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