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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
sheep, a candle, a cake and the sky posted on September 5, 2010 
flower and butterfly posted on September 1, 2010 
Spring pics posted on March 17, 2010 
first ever blog post posted on June 7, 2005 
mellow posted on June 6, 2010 
About posted on January 14, 2010 
cake posted on August 29, 2010 
cup of tea, anyone? posted on July 17, 2010 
a flower, nice eats and beach posted on July 20, 2009 
a walk in the woods and ice cream posted on September 8, 2010
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Category Archives: articles
just when you worry that the world is mad…
…with stories of a dinner lady sacked for telling the truth about bullying (I can vouch for such an act being akin to this, though stoning is done with tongues and a twisting of the truth these days in this country) and two policewomen being prevented from looking after each others children by Ofsted… Worry [...]
Scott James – X Factor contestant with aspergers
Article in The Sun about Scott’s life. Related posts:candy and cadfaelsnow and scary artfriends and mince pies
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reading matter
Thoroughly enjoyed a readathon of The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (Davie aquired one of only 2 copies left in Asda, £5) – very exciting, lots of thought provoking factoids Went rather well, surprisingly so really, with Doreen Virtue’s Goddesses and Angels, which I’ve just finished. Always loved the Horrible Histories books, read a rather good interview with [...]
off the hoof
New UK vegan magazine Off The Hoof – you can download it for free on their site Related posts:reflections and windowsvegan millionaires shortbreadwere back and article
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raw mom summit
here - lots of interesting interviews which you can listen to for free each day or sign up to get them all. Not just about raw food, lots of conscious parenting subjects covered :) Related posts:books and chestnutstroup headpumpkin mania
Wimbledon
enjoyed watching Laura play yesterday This article mentions the fact she is home educated (as, of course were were the Williams sisters). Related posts:gold paintkitten warsoups and games
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candy and cadfael
seem to be a lot of these reports around at the mo… Anxiety ‘haunts primary schools’ Half of children theft victims as mentioned in comments and the somewhat ridiculous Boring breaks lead to bullying - yes, why didn’t we all see it before? Some chairs arranged in a certain way and better swings will ’stamp out bullying in all [...]
garden pics
article - homeschooling comes of age. Breakfast juice this morning: carrot, apple, ginger and lemon – like drinking confectionery, it was so sweet Daniel’s pumpkins have gone wild in the country – here they are breaking free from the cold frame: Autumnal: Back to food: The wonderful lettuces just keep coming – cut and come again is [...]
comments on education
Both from the Independent. Now I have only glanced at this years Big Brother, haven’t got into it at all, mainly because any small snatches I’ve seen seemed shallow beyond belief. However some interesting points are made in this article: Big Brother and the Failed Generation Grampian may have the greatest success in those league tables [...]
home ed, dyslexia, chocolate and success…
what more could one want in an article? Related posts:just when you worry that the world is mad…frogs againballs
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