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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.
recipe of the moment
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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: Lucy
moon during eclipse
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winter
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slightly festive thoughts
see that orange glow at the side? Sitting room fire reflected in window Have just added a ‘pick of the vegan Christmas chocolate’ bit to the chocolate room. Here it is: Hotel Chocolat’s Gianduja Bombe, the Moo Free choc Santa and Rudolph The Reindeer from hotel chocolat again… Also added this Pyramid Rosemary Tree to [...]
heron in the trees
Related posts:linkagealas poor Yorick21 years
far over the misty mountains cold…
but no dungeons deep or caverns old… Hill in question: Bennachie and yes, a moo free chocolate Santa made it up there… very impressive on his fat little legs *patronises chocolate fondly* Related posts:Gluten Free Chocolate Cakesoups and gamesstripey sky and flapjacks
Posted in ancient stones, food, friends, vegan products, woods
Tagged mountain, Scotland, sweet, views, walk
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toad in the hole
Turned out lovely, soft and light and delicious. Here’s what I did: Batter made thus: mix 5 tablespoons of self raising flour with 3 tablespoons of gram (chick pea) flour, a pinch of salt and a pinch of bicarb. Beat in enough soya milk to make a creamy pouring batter. This quantity was to cover [...]
lots of pictures of a digger
I’m not actually trying to appeal to an entirely new demographic (three year old boys) but I like the contrasts here; well I like the colors, the conflicting realities of the situation are not quite so pleasing. Wind turbines are great but lovely trees being destroyed to make way for them seems an ironic destruction. [...]
it approaches… chocolate calendar time…
Yes, the time of year when it’s acceptable to eat a chocolate each day first thing in the morning… I hope those little images align properly in everyone’s browsers, else they won’t make sense The Modern Housewife Series Vol 1 is doing a countdown to Vegan Christmas starting on Nov 18th… but back to those [...]
Posted in blogroll, food, home educational bits, vegan products
Tagged festive, memories, vegan
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kissing is still in fashion
No matter how cold it gets there’s always one somewhere Seasonal bits: Frugal Christmas and Vegan Yule have been updated and weeded free of dead links and outdated information. Lebkuchen from Lidl now contain butter Drawing attention to Rose Elliot’s Vegetarian Christmas just now (see last years blog review of it) as it is currently [...]
Happy Samhain or Halloween
Looking for a pumpkin soup recipe today? Try the modern housewife blog or our own soup page Squirreling underway: and then there’s been some baking for the freezer: Come on then winter, what you waiting for?!!! Related posts:bloggage, food and snowbalmoral pieDunideer, Leith Hall and Daviot
