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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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Category Archives: books
polytunnels and taps
Weve had a few spring-like days now, causing me to dig over some ground for the little polytunnel and clean and set up the coldframe to let the ground warm up for salad seeds. Browsing Suttons trying to decide what to plant this year – will have more room with extra raised beds… this really [...]
Also posted in films, friends, garden, home educational bits, vegan products
Tagged dance, DIY, friendship, grow, memories
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swan lake
There were swans on the loch yesterday
Had a lovely day with friends morphing into a very balletic afternoon which was great fun. It’s been wonderful rediscovering ballet being for enjoyment, rather than an eternal striving (not to mention starving) for perfection. Looked out the old class music etc. I have but it’s all on cassettes [...]
Also posted in films, friends, reviews, woods
Tagged big bad, dance, friendship, vegan, vegetarian, wildlife
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cheap
a frugal recipe again, basic pasties :)
and bargains to be had – the book people are offering 10% off all orders until midnight tomorrow (Wed. 3rd Feb) – just enter WIN10 at checkout for offer.
among the snowdrops
more snow… some little bits I’ve been meaning to mention spread among the lovely signs of spring to come
Wayne Dyer’s new program: Excuses Begone! – been enjoying listening to that – he is always so motivational and uplifting.
The Bristol Dyslexia Centre has some interesting stuff on it’s site including some free educational games taken from the [...]
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 [...]
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Tagged big bad, education, reading, soup
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a casserole and a cookbook
We will have been married 20 years this year… which causes me to reflect how far weve come, how much the world has changed in that time and to note the two items above. They were given to us as a wedding present by friends who I used to babysit for and here they are still [...]
Also posted in food, friends, garden, odd, reviews, vegan products
Tagged cooking, friendship, herbs, memories, reading, time, vegan, vegetarian
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pressies
Ethical Superstore have a good offer on until the 1st of December – spend £60 and get a free £10 voucher, a free lavendar soap and free delivery
The Book People and Stocking Fillas also good priced gift finding places.
Our kids book store lists many books that our kids have loved over the years in various themes [...]
Also posted in food, vegan products
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book & choc
Reading the new Adrian Mole – The Prostrate Years and have discovered yet another vegan chocolate advent calendar. they didn’t exist at all when we were first vegan, now there’s all this choice!! See them all in Yule but here’s hotel chocolat’s one:
art, literature and chocolate…
chocolate sneaks in everywhere here… so will start blog post with it. After going to see the naked people at the art gallery (well worth seeing, wow, the newborn baby, the scared wild man… they speak of human vunerability somehow despite the size) popped into the new health food shop in Aberdeen to find that [...]
Also posted in art, food, home educational bits, reviews, trips, vegan products
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flower of Scotland
Beautiful country this in many ways… feel lucky to live here.
landed at my feet on a walk:
Reading Agnes Grey and being strongly reminded of what it was like to work in a Steiner school… off to make leek and potato soup, tis soup season… not quite this season yet but ooh… that looks good!
Montezumas Vegan Chocolate [...]
amazing language, wonderful poems
a beautiful ballet book.