but no dungeons deep or caverns old…

we start with a mince pie

up through the trees

onto the mountain face

Hill in question: Bennachie

mither tap obscured by mist

misty cairn

and yes, a moo free chocolate Santa made it up there… very impressive on his fat little legs *patronises chocolate fondly*

aww bless...

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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 beach visits take place:

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little lemon cakes

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vanilla cake with cream and buttons

creamovita and chocolate buttons - recipe for sponge on this page 

colours from the garden – a smoothie to be (added avo, banana, and OJ)

moth

check out VegaNation, a new vegan online shop! 

boy by sea

Pennan

girlish toes in the sea

salad

cauldron

sequins

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 and Other Writings - Henry David Thoreau

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Scottish

Japanese

man in pink tutu and giant gerbil

a ceiling

woodland in early summer

Triple Goddess

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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 and peruse the internet in bed, thinking of the Knickernator out running and smiling with her liver – Skedaddle!

Vegan Easter has been updated :D

Happenings revealed by camera content:

some of us have been doing teddy bear impersonations and sunbathing

there's been cake

flowers

loving all the spring green things - parsley here

hyacinth gone wild

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at Findhorn

A home ed trip as in bygone days Much hilarity ensued throughout…

approaching Pluscarden Abbey

sunshine on the Abbey

the girls

 2007 trip comparison

Abbey cat

Nature Sanctuary at Findhorn

inside

even the toilets have wings

links: The Findhorn Foundation and Pluscarden Abbey

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the snow returns

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 miss her very much. I looked out some older photos of her as I didn’t want the children to just remember her as a little old lady. She was a powerful cat, always very protective of my babies

Fantine and baby Daniel

Then there was a frenzied early unwrapping of one of my presents due to the (I thought at the time, unrectifiable ) breakdown of my old ipod nano. See how quickly I throw aside ethical non-buying preferences where Apple products are concerned?

new ipod touch - like the best thing ever!!

ipod touch

No sun until next Wednesday...

charming festive card from a dear friend

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girls playing chess

Visited the Lewis Chessmen at Aberdeen Art Gallery (other Scottish tour dates) – they are beautiful

wall of album covers, some of which I still have!

A Storm Trooper surrounded by Star Wars shoes

 though I really can’t see Jabba the Hut wearing the green basketball boots that have been named for him…

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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 question and the author though

Halfway through the second title in the Millennium trilogy with the aspergian character Lisbeth Salander. Long term readers of the blog will know that I do like writers who are saying stuff that needs to be said. Exposing the rot in the hope of helping clear it away. Here we have institutional abuse, sadistic bullying, violence against women and children and the compliance and ignorance of those around the situations against a very thrilling murder plot with corruption and political comment aplenty. Wonderfully recognised individuals. So exciting, I have to go…

Wiki on author Stieg Larsson

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