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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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sunshine, sky and yellow leaves posted on October 28, 2011 
Scottish macaroons posted on January 24, 2010 
graze posted on October 13, 2010 
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piano metaphor posted on April 24, 2007
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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: beach
summer revisted
Wow the weather, tis sublime This was a frugal tweet but is worth rehashing here – stuff does grow over winter albeit slowly: Planted over wintering onions in among the kale yesterday. Winter lettuce today. Vegan Mofo goes on through October – The Modern Housewife Series Vol 1 will be joining in Weather dictates evening [...]
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early morning walk
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sea and roots
cool little thing this – The Scale of the Universe Related posts:Kew and KwanzaaSlains Castledoors beaches angels
sea
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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 [...]
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Tagged castle, education, friendship, history, memories, Scotland, swimming
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coastal pics and pink meadow
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planting log, sitting, eating, stones and sea
I have just planted over 300 little leeks, lots of kale and purple sprouting brocolli seedlings, carrots, radish, garlic, basil, sunflowers and flat leaf parsley as an alternative to the madly (but wonderfully) continually self seeding curly The thinking of the planting this year is to grow things that both do well up here and that [...]
reflections and windows
The bridge did get finished: Now this may appear to be a blurry photo gone wrong – well, it is - but it is also a picture of trees reflected in chocolate so worthy of inclusion It is a montezuma’s very dark bar… Related posts:shoelaces and nutritionlemon cakekanji in the sun
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Tagged cooking, soup, sweet, trees, walk
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rabbits, cliffs, cushions and steamed chocolate pudding :)
Always together these two rabbits. They live under the rhoddies in the front garden. Gothic House on cliffs, sea must be so loud from there! There has been some sewing and knitting occurring Bracken sent us a great variation on our chocolate cake recipe, turning it into a steamed choccie pud with [...]
waves
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