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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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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 still up on Cat’s old blog with pics of them properly covered in coconut, of [...]
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 [...]
Also posted in books, food, home educational bits, links, reviews
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
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
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 healthy [...]
baking and mistletoe
Had a nice day yesterday – started in the city doing some shopping, all very busy but bright. Kept meeting people we knew. Headed to the Christmas Fayre at Crathes after that to buy mistletoe and eat roasted chestnuts. Also saw some poor reindeer having to pull a fat man in a red suit up [...]
quote
which I’ve stolen from the Aspie Home-Education blog:
“Do you want your children to be educated to be glorified clerks, bureaucrats, leading utterly miserable useless, futile lives, functioning as machines in a system? Or, do you want integrated human beings who are intelligent, capable, and fearless?” Krishnamurti
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amazing language, wonderful poems
a beautiful ballet book.