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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
raised beds posted on August 24, 2010 
cake posted on August 29, 2010 
About posted on January 14, 2010 
the melon posted on August 30, 2010 
Scottish macaroons posted on January 24, 2010 
first ever blog post posted on June 7, 2005 
this morning posted on August 28, 2010 
old pictures posted on January 19, 2010 
Spring pics posted on March 17, 2010 
mellow posted on June 6, 2010
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preserving
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 [...]
fruitful flowers and summer reading
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 [...]
Scottish macaroons
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) – the recipe is on Cat’s blog with pics of them properly covered in coconut, of which we are out [...]
blog, Illich and broth
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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Tagged big bad, education, reading, soup
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save the earth
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:a flower, nice eats and beachbaking and mistletoeHE at Brodie
spiral in the sand
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:curry noodlesfishbowlgeography and Simpsons
Also posted in beach, home educational bits, odd
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good books
Adventures of the Homeschoolers: The Genie in the Teapot by Liz Pilley :) For children aged four years and up. Freya and Heath embark on the ultimate home ed family history project with magic, genies and pirates. I love their mum with her educational slant on the situation and her fear of inspectors :) Nice to see [...]
art, music, literature, french
Went on to our negative spaces drawing of a chair in the art course. Too gorgeous a day to stay inside for it so we set up outside – looks like were making ready for a show but this is what we were meant to do with the chairs! Quite a good exercise I thought, [...]
blackcurrants
Here I sit listening to cries of delight (ooh, sutaki pies, quinoa, spelt pasta – what are these ballini things?) as the children unpack the goodness direct order in the kitchen… all part of ’practical skills’ education. This means I have to ‘not interfere’ and ‘let them make their own mistakes and learn by it’. Ho [...]
learning
Read Paula’s thoughts and links post about the Buddhist talk she attended on the conducive conditions for developing concentration, considered crucial to the development of understanding and wisdom. Wonderful how home ed provides these conditions. Then Cherryann sent me a quote from New Horizons for Learning: “The brain is truly a phenomenal structure, and keeping it [...]
