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it approaches… chocolate calendar time…

By Lucy | Published November 10, 2011

Yes, the time of year when it’s acceptable to eat a chocolate each day first thing in the morning… I hope those little images align properly in everyone’s browsers, else they won’t make sense The Modern Housewife Series Vol 1 is doing a countdown to Vegan Christmas starting on Nov 18th… but back to those [...]

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summer revisted

By Lucy | Published September 30, 2011

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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finally… a blog post

By Lucy | Published April 10, 2011

Seem to be having some trouble prioritising blogging (the smiley denotes that I do not actually care about this in the slightest so do not expect it to change anytime soon ) So, instead, I will draw your attention to a new blog on the sidebar. It makes me giggle every morning as I swig nettle tea [...]

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a random hotchpotch of things

By Lucy | Published September 23, 2010

education: Potatoes for Schools registration is now open for 2011 – free seed potatoes, available to home educators too The BBC Scottish History section is very good, nice timelines going on. on self esteem: We Teach What We Are - a blog from Wayne Dyer on the best we can do for young people. Page 20 [...]

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preserving

By Lucy | Published August 5, 2010

What a bumper year it’s been for the currants – were having berried up green smoothies daily, there are lots in freezer which will extend the berry smoothie season and it’s looking to be a very abundant bramble year too. Last year we gathered quite a lot for the freezer as well as smoothie-ing them [...]

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fruitful flowers and summer reading

By Lucy | Published June 24, 2010

It’s wonderfully warm here just now. In between all the cycling, walking, climbing and meeting badgers in the woods were loving the cool of the pool and reading in the sun Fiction being perused: Mariana, a gentle tale of reincarnation and time slipping and the latest Sophie Hannah, A Room Swept White – very impressed [...]

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Scottish macaroons

By Lucy | Published January 24, 2010

If you’re looking for a Scottish dish to make for Burns night other than haggis*, these are very good – nothing like the English item of the same name and containing the somewhat surprising ingredient of potato (undetectable, is lovely fondant). Basically you boil a small peeled potato, mash it and mix in as much icing sugar as [...]

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blog, Illich and broth

By Lucy | Published January 23, 2010

Have finally got the blog how I want it – a terrible tale of databases, installations of wordpress and corrupted (by me) css files ensued but I’ve now uploaded the archives (see drop down on sidebar) and cleaned up dead links too Reading a book lent by my mum. She found it while scouring her shelves during the snow [...]

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save the earth

By Lucy | Published June 6, 2008

We were sent a gorgeous poster by Jane - see her blog here or email her about posters at janeygirlfruitbat@live.co.uk In our kitchen: detail: standing on a beautiful bit of the Earth :  currently reading: Very peaceful and wise…. Buy UK or Buy US Related posts:big artbooks and dancematoh no, I’ve got to think of titles now? first [...]

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spiral in the sand

By Lucy | Published April 20, 2008

Written the little home ed page for vegan family – crammed quite a few photos in there  …blog goes back to sleep…  or at least presses that snooze button for a while Related posts:ladybirdkanji in the sunpolytunnels and taps

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