Yes, the time of year when it’s acceptable to eat a chocolate each day first thing in the morning… I hope those little images align properly in everyone’s browsers, else they won’t make sense

The Modern Housewife Series Vol 1 is doing a countdown to Vegan Christmas starting on Nov 18th…

but back to those Advent chocs:

Already on the sidebar is the moo free one Then we have Montezuma’s dark – big blocks of chocolate in that one, and the most expensive but containing such beautiful shapes is the Ultimate Dark Advent Calendar from hotel chocolat…

Don’t forget the non edible but so much fun Playmobil ones either – Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com both have a good selection of them.

An advent candle pic from ‘days of yore home edding younger children‘ time (original post):

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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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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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early evening sun on the loch

Below, a beautifully animated talk by Ken Robinson:

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shadows on the beach

roots

cool little thing this – The Scale of the Universe

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This is a site we used quite a bit back at the more curriculified beginning of home education – a quick blog search reveals the first mention of it almost exactly 5 years ago! From the Guardian, it covers the whole national curriculum, primary and secondary and does have some really interesting bits and ways of presenting things. The Barbican Library are now paying the (somewhat hefty I seem to remember) subscription for all home educated children  

Learn Premium 

username: barbican

password: guardian

a picture from around that time, 2005

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random bug on a sunflower leaf

education:

Potatoes for Schools registration is now open for 2011 – free seed potatoes, available to home educators too

The BBC Scottish History section is very good, nice timelines going on.

on self esteem:

We Teach What We Are - a blog from Wayne Dyer on the best we can do for young people.

Page 20 of Ladies First Magazine has a beautiful article about womens body image and self esteem.

and there is an excellent article on aspergers here

…and a small mention for Twitter, some of the above were passed on through there. Last weekend we won tickets to an early preview of Despicable Me, complete with many freebies, thanks to following Cineworld on there. Very funny film, one of the few weve seen that actually makes the 3D element worthwhile. Follow us on our vegan family account or as Frugaluk where we pass on many competitions

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at the forge, casting pewter

A Medieval event at Archaeolink with the Historic Saltire Society. The Smith was full of information, showing us the melting down of various rocks to extract and mix the metals.

belt buckle, ready so fast

medieval blind date!

reenactment of the siege of Aberdeen Castle

weaponry

back further in time - Roman marching camp and a somewhat androgynous wicker person

Celtic Bog Goddess

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borage being my favourite

Great program photoshop I’ve created a few new designs for the spreadshirt shop, some based on flowers from the garden, some ballet, old pictures and still the original vegan and home ed categories too. There is an offer on from today, 12th July to 30th July (2010 for future clarification) – if you buy £40 worth of stuff you can choose a baseball cap, messenger bag or apron for free with the voucher code ADDONFREE

Other designs:

pink

little flowers

rose

ballet shoes

purple pointes

sign at Findhorn

and the old faithfuls, gorgeous...

and not a school bag

editing in another couple, having much fun with it

whizzers on chocolate icing

purple strawberry - from the garden...

shop front here :D

the new designs are also included in our cafepress store for the USA

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dunes

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). 

had picnic by the river Deveron in Huntly

Balvenie Castle door

looking down to hall

window

club with spikes

bits and pieces

battling vikings

Saw some of the lovely t-shirts made by one of the families in the group being beautifully modelled – they have home ed, breast feeding, Pictish and Celtic designs (Charlotte has the Celtic tree one). They have bags too

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