Category Archives: films

chicken isn’t vegan?

By Lucy | Published March 6, 2011

loved the film Related posts:mainly booksremembrancebirthday

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balletic

By Lucy | Published February 6, 2011

Loved Black Swan at the cinema, Ballet Boyz at the theatre and Margot on DVD Related posts:he-artgorgeous glasgowgetting a bit leafy with it

Also posted in art | Tagged dance | 2 Comments

snowed in

By Lucy | Published November 30, 2010

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:Cat’s cakespiles of booksand the winner is…

Also posted in books, woods | Tagged snow, trees | 10 Comments

Visited the Lewis Chessmen at Aberdeen Art Gallery (other Scottish tour dates) – they are beautiful though I really can’t see Jabba the Hut wearing the green basketball boots that have been named for him… Related posts:Halloweengentle friendwater stone ice

Also posted in ancient stones, art, friends, home educational bits, odd, only pics, trips | Tagged education, history | 6 Comments

a youtube mix

By Lucy | Published October 27, 2010

Little bits that weve been watching/seeing/thinking about/liking. First a 9 second clip of Mikhail Baryshnikov’s 11 turn pirouette from White Nights: Ellen Degeneres on being vegan: Then this clip from the Magic Sword reminds me of walking in our woods here, all wild and magical. It was the first film we took the children to see [...]

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Autumn colours and education paradigms

By Lucy | Published October 17, 2010

Below, a beautifully animated talk by Ken Robinson: Related posts:ceramicsreading, paintingSlains Castle and Dracula

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a random hotchpotch of things

By Lucy | Published September 23, 2010

education: Potatoes for Schools registration is now open for 2011 – free seed potatoes, available to home educators too The BBC Scottish History section is very good, nice timelines going on. on self esteem: We Teach What We Are - a blog from Wayne Dyer on the best we can do for young people. Page 20 [...]

Also posted in articles, blogroll, food, garden, home educational bits, links, resources | Tagged blogroll, grow, history, Scotland, veggies | 10 Comments

Silmarils

By Lucy | Published July 10, 2010

Listening to an audiobook of The Silmarillion just now while browsing the Atlas of Middle Earth. This follows on from our epic watching of the extended versions of all three Lord of the Rings films in preparation and inspiration for our own mountain quest. Nice to be back in Middle Earth other jewels: smoothie and [...]

Also posted in books, food, garden, raw, smoothies | Tagged grow, herbs, reading | 2 Comments

Peregrines

By Lucy | Published June 9, 2010

Wonderful place this, great home ed group event there a few more pics in our home education set on flickr and a short video of the squirrels below, much topical talking in background… Related posts:mainly sudokupaint the planetswinter

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polytunnels and taps

By Lucy | Published March 6, 2010

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 [...]