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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.
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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
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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
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moo free Easter egg posted on February 3, 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 
Scottish macaroons posted on January 24, 2010 
sunshine, sky and yellow leaves posted on October 28, 2011 
piano metaphor posted on April 24, 2007 
first ever blog post posted on June 7, 2005 
graze posted on October 13, 2010
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These creamy white buttons make the most amazing white hot chocolate! See Cat's recipe on The Modern Housewife blog.
Category Archives: articles
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:reading mattertrianglesupsetting
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Thank you Paula for sending me this fantastic talk – Our Killing Schools – by a professor of political science. Some amazing points he makes there - was very moved by what he says about home education (in the questions part at the end) and can relate to so much else. We spent yesterday afternoon with [...]
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All work, no play at Blair flagship school - don’t know what to say :( and Catherine Tate gave us some periodic table fun :) Kids loved this one with David Tennant too… yes okay, so did I Going to school not compulsory – from the beeb. Sounds like England is going to get some guidelines a bit [...]
triangles
We read up a bit more on Pythagoras theorem in this book and then moved onto triangles in general and played around with both pythagorus and triangles in this online maths dictionary for kids. Daniel went off on his own Pythagorean tangent investigating the habits of the Pythagoreans. He has also been fascinated to learn [...]
frogs again
Education Failures are a National Tragedy from the Telegraph (seen at aspie home education – such a wonderful source of news!) – some straight talking, no misuse of the word excellence at all! Thank you Cherryann for sending us this elements vid from teachersTV – we all enjoyed that :) Lots of other interesting stuff on there – watched [...]
some stats
shamelessly lifted from the aeuk blog but they are really worth repeating, from the recent Unicef report: More than 360,000 children injured in schools each year 450,000 children bullied in school last year At least 16 children commit suicide each year as a result of school bullying An estimated 1 million children truant every year Treasury [...]
balls
A couple of images from yesterday’s walk: Today kids played Trilemma and then we dug out this Hyperlauncher kit that weve had for a while. We read up on Polymers in this wonderful Science Dictionary and then got to making the balls :) Great fun. Once we’d made enough and let them dry out a bit [...]
were back and article
…arrived home this morning, still engulfed by laundry and unpacking and feeling totally exhausted but the longest blog post in history will be written in due course (took 198 photos, will have to be selective). Here’s a little preview – pictured incident was not my fault but an error in the fire alarm system I swear ;) [...]
