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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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Coconut oil is a youth enhancing, beautiful smelling moisturiser, a healthy cooking oil and a hair conditioner...
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books
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
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flowers, water, books and sunshine posted on May 5, 2012 
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planting log, sitting, eating, stones and sea posted on May 15, 2010 
first ever blog post posted on June 7, 2005 
wild garlic posted on April 1, 2009 
red dragon pie posted on January 9, 2012
Category Archives: films
finally getting round to a few things
such as: looking at energy comparisons and have switched using uSwitch’s Energy Price Comparison Calculator (edit in: see frugal.org.uk for current equivalents of this), a lot easier than I thought, they do all the switch over stuff - there are still some companies offering fixed tarriffs though some have been pulled today… preparations for the long [...]
trees, poetry and latin
Ah well, the best laid plans and all that – ended up being a really busy morning and now the piano tuner is here. I am using this enforced stay in time to write this post on educational bits long promised We were really delighted to find a horse chestnut tree in a hidden [...]
after a little blog break…
It’s been a busy month of visiting friends both here and there iyswim. Had a fab residential home ed group trip where the kids ran amock in the woods and the adults got to chat and drink wine and eat chocolate cake. It was HOT, actually HOT, hoping this bodes well for the rest of [...]
birthday
Charlotte is now 13 :D She had a good birthday – started very early indeed watching her gift from Daniel – The Simpsons Movie. Later on we went to the cinema to see The Golden Compass – all thoroughly enjoyed that. I had read the book some time ago and thought it captured the atmosphere well. [...]
I got a letter too…
…very touched by the sweet note of apology I received yesterday – despite knowing the new address, they sent it to the old one. At least they are consistent in their incompetence I really hope you have a deep and lasting interest in salt dough (1 cup plain flour, half a cup salt, half cup [...]
cards
Received our first Christmas card today in the post. Decided to get out my cards and address book containing the gradually expanding list – not as bad as the 25 million CB apology letter list but it’s big and scary, nontheless. Advent table has progressed a bit: Continued on from our much earlier study [...]
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festive cheer :)
Nice home ed day out yesterday (I left my camera on the usb here so day is not depicted), again a day not as planned but working out well. We went to Duff House playpark first and had intended going round the house but it was closed. We spied much festive goodness through the shop window though [...]
remembrance
Very good weekend. Yesterday we watched the ceremony at the Cenotaph on TV – kids found it very interesting and insisted on continuing to listen to the rest of it on Radio 4 in the car on the way over to my Mum’s for lunch. Saw various war memorials with their new wreaths on the way. [...]
praxinoscope
Just as Charlotte is working hard on a short film on movie maker, particularly dealing with the audio, we see a piece about film music in Harry Potter (out on dvd on Monday – most exciting!)… and here’s a new short film about home ed Yesterday Adrian Mole mentioned Charles and Diana’s wedding, so after our daily listen we went [...]
geodes
On a bit of a soup kick just now: 110 mile an hour winds here today – lorries have blown over and roofs have blown off. Were still all intact but it’s loud and fierce. Weve been going for extremely long walks of late in the woods but giving that a miss today… tried to photograph [...]
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