Category Archives: ancient stones

Knight School

By Lucy | Published September 16, 2009

We are highly recommending Historic Scotland’s educational activities - great for home ed or school groups

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a flower, nice eats and beach

By Lucy | Published July 20, 2009

 
Chocolate mint layer cake made by a clever friend who is generally good at making things (recipe now in the comments below)

White chocolate mousse with red berries. Melt about 100g of cocoa butter and blend into a block of silken tofu with some icing sugar and vanilla…

Just loving all the veg and fruit from [...]

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jolly

By Lucy | Published June 29, 2009

Gorgeous hot weather continues… gooseberries and rasps from the garden are making their way into the breakfast smoothies now Talking of smoothies, the green smoothie blog has been added to the sidebar, lots of good ideas there.
The clearout has reached the kids wardrobes so many more puzzles and educational games are up here
In [...]

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windows to the Druids’ Temple

By Lucy | Published June 23, 2009

A corny title to a post again… joy So, lots of windows at Tolquhon Castle:

(more tolquhon pics on the link at the bottom)

Onto the Druids’ Temple at Ythsie, a great peace to be felt at this place:

day enhanced by Wayne and Katie and then Ancestors of Avalon

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girls go up the mountain

By Lucy | Published April 22, 2009

This was actually yesterday morning:

Got to give a mention to Moonrabbits Cotton Comforts who were included in a two year study of reusable pads from around the world by Brunel University – they came 1st for value and were in the top 3 for being well made, comfy etc. Fab
Now on to today and climbing Bennachie [...]

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a stone circling day

By Lucy | Published April 2, 2009

Loanhead of Daviot:

Easter Aquorthies:

Couldn’t access the stones at Castle Fraser as they were having stabalising work done on them… so we went to Broomend of Crichie to see the remains of a circle and henge – there were also avenues here in the past, only one stone remains of them.

Day greatly enhanced by Aubrey Burl’s [...]

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Berrybrae stone circle

By Lucy | Published March 5, 2009
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Standing with Stones

By Lucy | Published February 28, 2009

This is a wonderful documentary about Britain and Ireland’s ancient sites. A very mellow and informative watch… inspires you to get out there and explore the ancient past in your own area. It includes the better known sites but also many lesser heard of ones with stories from local folklore, the presenter’s theories and observations… a [...]

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a day of trains, mountains and friends

By Lucy | Published October 23, 2008

It’s the tattie holidays – we get to see more of our friends who go to school Starting off at the Strathspey railway on a steam train

seen in ‘Monarch of the Glen’ as Glenbogle but it’s actually Broomhill station

First sight of the train (there’s going to be a LOT of pictures)

The autumn colours just blow [...]

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archeaology

By Lucy | Published August 26, 2008

Home ed group trip to the Birnie archaeological dig. Archaeologist gave us a very interesting talk about the site and finds and then it was off to the trenches where 1st year archaeo students were excavating an iron-age burnt down roundhouse:

We got to sieve the earth removed by diggers, quite a few things were found such [...]

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