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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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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!
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very powerful for it's size
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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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Detox Your World: Quick and Lasting Results for a Beautiful Mind, Body and Spirit. A fabulous guide to optimal healthy living.
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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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These creamy white buttons make the most amazing white hot chocolate! See Cat's recipe on The Modern Housewife blog.
Category Archives: friends
far over the misty mountains cold…
but no dungeons deep or caverns old… Hill in question: Bennachie and yes, a moo free chocolate Santa made it up there… very impressive on his fat little legs *patronises chocolate fondly* Related posts:manga and G8Dunideer, Leith Hall and Daviotsea, river, Balvenie, vikings
Also posted in ancient stones, food, vegan products, woods
Tagged mountain, Scotland, sweet, views, walk
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summer revisted
Wow the weather, tis sublime This was a frugal tweet but is worth rehashing here – stuff does grow over winter albeit slowly: Planted over wintering onions in among the kale yesterday. Winter lettuce today. Vegan Mofo goes on through October – The Modern Housewife Series Vol 1 will be joining in Weather dictates evening [...]
Also posted in beach, blogroll, food, garden
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Little cakes and much jumping
little lemon cakes Related posts:toasties and artTap o’ Noth and Dunnydeermoon and geese
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 [...]
Also posted in books, food, links, odd, raw, smoothies, vegan products
Tagged cake, cooking, friendship, reading, Scotland, sweet, vegan, vegetarian, wildlife
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random pictures
for which there with be little or no explanation… Related posts:autumn sunsome statsfar over the misty mountains cold…
finally… a blog post
Seem to be having some trouble prioritising blogging (the smiley denotes that I do not actually care about this in the slightest so do not expect it to change anytime soon ) So, instead, I will draw your attention to a new blog on the sidebar. It makes me giggle every morning as I swig nettle tea [...]
days of yore
A home ed trip as in bygone days Much hilarity ensued throughout… 2007 trip comparison links: The Findhorn Foundation and Pluscarden Abbey Related posts:gorgeous glasgowlighthousefinally getting round to a few things
Also posted in art, home educational bits, trips
Tagged education, friendship, memories, Scotland
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amid the snow
Whoops, no blog posts for a bit! We were blocked in for two weeks, then ran madly around buying food and Christmas. I do prefer Yule, no purchase required In the midst of this we had a sad happening with the loss of Fantine. She was 20 years old and very frail but we all [...]
Chessmen and Star Wars shoes
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:flower powerlord of the fliespumpkins
Also posted in ancient stones, art, films, home educational bits, odd, only pics, trips
Tagged education, history
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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 [...]


