Category Archives: friends

Transformation

By Lucy | Published August 19, 2010

Angel party playing The Transformation Game, a spookily accurate spiritual game devised at Findhorn. Wonderfully light humour pervades it. Related posts:Burning of the Claviesea spaghetti and volleyballfar over the misty mountains cold…

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a different loch and wood :)

By Lucy | Published August 16, 2010

Had a lovely day out with friends at Millbuies Country Park Oddly, I took the photo of the butterfly on a buddliea plant in the post below while waiting to meet up with our friends at a garden centre. They later bought that plant! Related posts:music, history and the futuretreesimages from a cycling afternoon

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how does your garden grow?

By Lucy | Published July 20, 2010

Wildly. Freely. Abundantly. Rather similarly to Cat‘s I see this morning! Sadly my courgettes are nowhere near as far on as Penny‘s or Cat’s (I’m hoping they’re late developers ). Some very early pics from before the sun was properly up this morning: the small toms are ones I took out of an organic tomato and just [...]

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if the mountain defeats us…

By Lucy | Published July 8, 2010

but it didn’t, so we did not have to brave the mines of Moria, 3 times up and down Bennachie accomplished and quite a bit of money raised for the trees :) My legs hurt today! These new signs help to avoid confusion, there are even paths at the bottom linking different carparks so you can [...]

Also posted in ancient stones, food, trips, vegan products, woods | Tagged friendship, grow, mountain, Scotland, trees, views, walk, wildlife | 6 Comments

sea, river, Balvenie, vikings

By Lucy | Published July 2, 2010

Had a wonderful afternoon with friends, sea swimming and boogie boarding – walking over dunes beforehand. Then another busy day yesterday at a home ed group viking re-enactment workshop (associated with the Dufftown Heritage Festival this weekend), also visiting Balvenie Castle and Banff Museum (which is exactly as I remember it as a child, slightly disturbing). Saw some [...]

Also posted in ancient stones, beach, home educational bits, trips, vegan products | Tagged castle, education, friendship, history, memories, Scotland, swimming | 4 Comments

green soup and juice, raw chocolate pud

By Lucy | Published June 27, 2010

recipe up here been drinking wheatgrass juice with friends Raw chocolate pudding teamed up with Swedish Glace (booja booja stuff in a tub is raw if you prefer). Pudding was made thus: grind up some raw chocolate nibs (could use cocoa though of course not raw) then blend with a large avocado and 2 ripe bananas with a squirt [...]

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Tap o’ Noth and Dunnydeer

By Lucy | Published June 17, 2010

Practice triple climb of other hills! Tap O’ Noth first, then Dunnydeer twice. Related posts:radio ga gawhale in harbourlovely herbs and the unintended

Also posted in ancient stones, trips | Tagged castle, friendship, history, Scotland, views, walk | 4 Comments

trees for life

By Lucy | Published June 12, 2010

Four of us girls (Charlotte, me and Lucy and Eleanor from moonrabbits) are doing a sponsored climb to raise money for trees for life, the wonderful charity that is replanting the Caledonian Forest. We intend climbing Bennachie 3 times in one day, taking all three routes to the Mither Tap in about a months time. [...]

Also posted in books, resources, woods | Tagged mountain, reading, Scotland, trees, walk | 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:art, literature and chocolate…reading, paintingcomments on education

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planting log, sitting, eating, stones and sea

By Lucy | Published May 15, 2010

I have just planted over 300 little leeks, lots of kale and purple sprouting brocolli seedlings, carrots, radish, garlic, basil, sunflowers and flat leaf parsley as an alternative to the madly (but wonderfully) continually self seeding curly The thinking of the planting this year is to grow things that both do well up here and that [...]