Category Archives: art

21 years

By Lucy | Published September 14, 2011

Wedding anniversary today picking plums and playing with favourite iPod app: If only I hadn’t worn my squirrel socks to do it!! Related posts:Cullodenmmmpotatoes

Also posted in food, garden, only pics, woods | 9 Comments

balletic

By Lucy | Published February 6, 2011

Loved Black Swan at the cinema, Ballet Boyz at the theatre and Margot on DVD Related posts:little logsbooks and dancematearthsea

Also posted in films | Tagged dance | 2 Comments

days of yore

By Lucy | Published January 19, 2011

A home ed trip as in bygone days Much hilarity ensued throughout… 2007 trip comparison links: The Findhorn Foundation and Pluscarden Abbey Related posts:fathers daymanga and G8puffin boots beach

Also posted in friends, home educational bits, trips | Tagged education, friendship, memories, Scotland | 6 Comments

Whoops, no blog posts for a bit! We were blocked in for two weeks, then ran madly around buying food and Christmas. I do prefer Yule, no purchase required In the midst of this we had a sad happening with the loss of Fantine. She was 20 years old and very frail but we all [...]

Also posted in friends, games, garden, music | Tagged friendship, memories, play, snow | 8 Comments

Chessmen and Star Wars shoes

By Lucy | Published November 15, 2010

Visited the Lewis Chessmen at Aberdeen Art Gallery (other Scottish tour dates) – they are beautiful though I really can’t see Jabba the Hut wearing the green basketball boots that have been named for him… Related posts:art, literature and chocolate…piano metaphorTransformation

Also posted in ancient stones, films, friends, home educational bits, odd, only pics, trips | Tagged education, history | 6 Comments

lanterns and lamps

By Lucy | Published October 30, 2010

Related posts:gardening and designhome ed aspie articleChristmas 2008

Tagged festive | 6 Comments

a youtube mix

By Lucy | Published October 27, 2010

Little bits that weve been watching/seeing/thinking about/liking. First a 9 second clip of Mikhail Baryshnikov’s 11 turn pirouette from White Nights: Ellen Degeneres on being vegan: Then this clip from the Magic Sword reminds me of walking in our woods here, all wild and magical. It was the first film we took the children to see [...]

Also posted in films, woods | Tagged dance, trees, vegan, vegetarian, veggies, walk | Comments Off

2 Churchyards

By Lucy | Published September 26, 2010

Related posts:Brodiefestive madnessstrathbeg

Also posted in ancient stones, only pics | Tagged history, views | 9 Comments

Scotch Broth

By Lucy | Published September 15, 2010

Autumn. Cold winds. Rain. Hail. Even a few moments of snow yesterday between bursts of hot sunshine. Walking on the South side of the hill in the woods it is suddenly no longer autumn but the end of summer. Off with jackets, faces to the sun then round the corner into the North and winter, now [...]

Also posted in ancient stones, food | Tagged soup | 5 Comments