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Living in the North of Scotland, vegan, home educating, cake eating, 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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books of the moment
The Artists Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self - an intensely powerful and synchronistic way of clearing blocks, old psychological patterns and dysfunctions of the past. Get doing your morning pages, they're amazing!
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fabulous guide to foraging in Britain.
full version or pocket guide (both uk amazon)
amazing Russian books these: spirituality; growing; living naturally; raising children with love and respect; quite magical. Release any preconceived ideas of how life should be (or books) and create your space of love!
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A very well researched novel which, alongside Picoult's usual 'heading to a trial' plot, explores many facets of and perspectives on Asperger's Syndrome. The potential and common effects of AS on siblings is especially well documented here. As gripping and informative a book as Nineteen Minutes
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a great storehouse of food growing knowledge from Dirty Nails :)
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"Girls just wanna have... wanna have fun...", and we still are :)
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Popular Posts
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Category Archives: ancient stones
Dunnydeer stone circle
Related posts:paint and flamesremembranceMinty – Harriet Tubman
if the mountain defeats us…
but it didn’t, so we did not have to brave the mines of Moria, 3 times up and down Bennachie accomplished and quite a bit of money raised for the trees :) My legs hurt today! These new signs help to avoid confusion, there are even paths at the bottom linking different carparks so you can [...]
Also posted in food, friends, trips, vegan products, woods
Tagged friendship, grow, mountain, Scotland, trees, views, walk, wildlife
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sea, river, Balvenie, vikings
Had a wonderful afternoon with friends, sea swimming and boogie boarding – walking over dunes beforehand. Then another busy day yesterday at a home ed group viking re-enactment workshop (associated with the Dufftown Heritage Festival this weekend), also visiting Balvenie Castle and Banff Museum (which is exactly as I remember it as a child, slightly disturbing). Saw some [...]
Also posted in beach, friends, home educational bits, trips, vegan products
Tagged castle, education, friendship, history, memories, Scotland, swimming
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Tap o’ Noth and Dunnydeer
Practice triple climb of other hills! Tap O’ Noth first, then Dunnydeer twice. Related posts:holidaytimepile of stoneslighthouse
stones, chickens, nettles
Parkhouse stone circle – we have visited this circle so many times, having lived closeby for 12 years, that it always feels very welcoming and familiar At the farming museum we saw a Rhode Island Red mum with Silkie chicks (she had sat on the eggs): The dandelion pancakes have been written up here, chive [...]
Loudon Wood, feet and newts
After many years of searching in vain, we finally found Loudon Wood stone circle. The length of time was contributed to by a council sign pointing into completely different, unconnected bit of wood – ignore that and use google maps instead if wanting to visit! Beautiful place. Davie put on music down by the pond as he set [...]
Knight School
We are highly recommending Historic Scotland’s educational activities - great for home ed or school groups Related posts:cocoa and artmild and calmpasta, beloved, postcards, books
a flower, nice eats and beach
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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Tagged cake, cooking, history
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jolly
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 [...]
windows to the Druids’ Temple
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 Related posts:a casserole and a cookbookInfernal [...]
