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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.
recipe of the moment
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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
Amazon.co.uk
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
an abundance of snowdrops posted on January 28, 2012 
red dragon pie posted on January 9, 2012 
graze posted on October 13, 2010 
About posted on January 14, 2010 
ice, a pie and Burn’s Night posted on January 21, 2012 
gourmet raw brownies and crisps posted on January 17, 2012 
Scottish macaroons posted on January 24, 2010 
archeaology posted on August 26, 2008 
Solstice Chocolate Refrigerator Christmas Cake posted on December 22, 2011 
save the earth posted on June 6, 2008
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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: books
red dragon pie
This is a dish we’ve had a lot over the years but never written up. Original credit goes to Sarah Brown’s Vegetarian Kitchen (BBC cookery series). It’s a wonderfully filling and wholesome meal. Topped with mashed potatoes, the base is made of aduki beans (goodness direct link there, which links back to our aduki bean [...]
it’s not too late
to make a Christmas cake or plan your vegan Christmas dinner to buy a vegan cookbook or kids book – today, Monday 19th is the last day for free shipping with Amazon but there are various other delivery choices all week. to get a t-shirt from us, the deadline is 20th Dec with express shipping order from hotel chocolat by [...]
summer
creamovita and chocolate buttons - recipe for sponge on this page colours from the garden – a smoothie to be (added avo, banana, and OJ) check out VegaNation, a new vegan online shop! Books of the moment: Ecstatic Beings - Shazzie and Kate Magic The Brightest Star in the Sky - Marian Keyes Balletboyz - Michael Nunn and Billy Trevitt Waldon [...]
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Tagged cake, cooking, friendship, reading, Scotland, sweet, vegan, vegetarian, wildlife
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snowed in
Digging my way into the woodshed through a 4 foot pile of snow, thoughts of Cold Comfort Farm mingle with a need to watch The Shining Related posts:reading, paintingleaping fences in the woodswinter
a green book giveaway
We have a beautiful paperback copy of Lynne Rickard’s new book , I Do Not Eat the Colour Green to give away. A lovely title which encourages healthy eating for kids. See our review of it up here To enter just comment on this post and tell us what your favourite green thing is. Interpret the word [...]
Vegetarian Christmas
An older book, now out of print, but I don’t think anything has come along to best it as a veggie festive title (do comment if you know otherwise!). I got the hardback out of the library something like 18/19 years ago and it impacted me. The gorgeousness of Christmas food, the hints on preparing [...]
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Tagged cooking, festive, memories, vegan, vegetarian, veggies, wildlife
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Millennium
I love it when I have a book that I’m enjoying so much I resent all other activities that take me away from it . Things like housework, cooking, sleeping… ugh… website work, long walks and lovely trips out with friends are still good I did/do/will manipulate any conversation to a discussion about the books in [...]
Autumn
The equinox occurs at 4.03am tomorrow morning. A time of balance and harvest. Here we have broccoli, kale, leeks, carrots, apples and even finally courgettes in great abundance. The peas and beans are still producing though more slowly and it’s time for brambles in the smoothies. I love how the sunflower heads get bigger and [...]
sheep, a candle, a cake and the sky
another soul searching Transformation Game was played… it really does embody that Findhorn-esque quality of sharing and discovering deep things openly with others, love it. Wonderful companion to the morning pages of The Artist’s Way. Related posts:Summer Solsticefrogsthe Solstice sun rises
this morning
setting the above as my desktop (click for bigger image – creative commons so anyone can download) doing: 5 Tibetans listening: Gregorian Chant (CD bought on our visit to Pluscarden Abbey a couple of years ago) reading: The Abundance Book and The Wine of Angels off to pick almost the last of the blackcurrants for a smoothie [...]
