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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
red dragon pie posted on January 9, 2012 
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.
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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 [...]
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 Related posts:blogsthe waldorf maths posta random hotchpotch of [...]
is there anything you can’t make with lego?
saw this over at Making It Up and were all quite taken with it – an illustrated bible in lego. Just went through Exodus – children quite shocked by some of it – Prince of Egypt was obviously vastly edited :) Charlotte thought this was Tony Blair – though franky some of Judges is not suitable for [...]
blogs
Kids have spent a lot of the morning setting up blogs of their own. Charlotte’s: A plateful of rice and salad and Dan’s (soon to be renamed I think as it’s not all going to be Star Wars related!): Endor and stuff. Have set them both to no comments for just now. Lots of learning [...]
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Weve been starting the day with Nature meditations again all this week – today we were safe in a cave, earlier in the week weve been a tortoise (I like that one) and a tree and lain on warm golden sand on a beach (obviously not in Scotland at the moment) – all nice and [...]
creations of a cakely nature
Some things we came home to: two exciting postcards from the group, one from Japan and one from Antartica from this man. He’s got some fabulous pictures up there. Were going to send him back one of Brodie Castle. Charlotte has done a page on Antartica and Daniel did Japan. Our wall map is getting [...]
