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Living in the North of Scotland, vegan, home educating, cake eating, 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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Category Archives: garden
polytunnels and taps
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 [...]
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Tagged dance, DIY, friendship, grow, memories
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fox in the snow
Lots more has fallen – we are ankle deep again…
just as I was taking photos this fox came and had a good look into the garden. We do see them quite often here, but not usually when holding a camera
then, while eating my porridge by the window this morning I noticed I had an [...]
among the snowdrops
more snow… some little bits I’ve been meaning to mention spread among the lovely signs of spring to come
Wayne Dyer’s new program: Excuses Begone! – been enjoying listening to that – he is always so motivational and uplifting.
The Bristol Dyslexia Centre has some interesting stuff on it’s site including some free educational games taken from the [...]
a casserole and a cookbook
We will have been married 20 years this year… which causes me to reflect how far weve come, how much the world has changed in that time and to note the two items above. They were given to us as a wedding present by friends who I used to babysit for and here they are still [...]
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Tagged cooking, friendship, herbs, memories, reading, time, vegan, vegetarian
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snow and trees
A stroll round the garden yesterday:
Wonderful things that help us through the Scottish winter: hot water bottles filled from the big kettle on the wood stove each night, so cosy for the feet and full spectrum light bulbs, good for the mood in the dark times
Gatekeeper
Think were going to have a quiet Halloween this year. Last years party was fantastic but am in lazy mode right now Being scared by the Gatekeeper and munching on scary chocolate and pumpkin soup will suffice…
Vegan Halloween chocolate: Winnie the Witch from Montezumas and many shapes from Dietary Needs Direct and while on subject [...]
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flower of Scotland
Beautiful country this in many ways… feel lucky to live here.
landed at my feet on a walk:
Reading Agnes Grey and being strongly reminded of what it was like to work in a Steiner school… off to make leek and potato soup, tis soup season… not quite this season yet but ooh… that looks good!
Montezumas Vegan Chocolate [...]
rabbits, cliffs, cushions and steamed chocolate pudding :)
Always together these two rabbits. They live under the rhoddies in the front garden.
Gothic House on cliffs, sea must be so loud from there!
There has been some sewing and knitting occurring
Bracken sent us a great variation on our chocolate cake recipe, turning it into a steamed choccie pud with sauce akin to the M&S [...]
autumn
very useful: Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and Europe
amazing language, wonderful poems
a beautiful ballet book.