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it’s not too late

By Lucy | Published December 19, 2011

to make a Christmas cake or plan your vegan Christmas dinner to buy a vegan cookbook or kids book – today, Monday 19th is the last day for free shipping with Amazon but there are various other delivery choices all week. to get a t-shirt from us, the deadline is 20th Dec with express shipping order from hotel chocolat by [...]

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kissing is still in fashion

By Lucy | Published November 5, 2011

No matter how cold it gets there’s always one somewhere Seasonal bits: Frugal Christmas and Vegan Yule have been updated and weeded free of dead links and outdated information. Lebkuchen from Lidl now contain butter Drawing attention to Rose Elliot’s Vegetarian Christmas just now (see last years blog review of it) as it is currently [...]

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beautiful day

By Lucy | Published October 16, 2011

lentil soup recipe added to frugal and I found this exciting, £1.49 from Amazon: and the phenomenal apple abundance continues unabated… Related posts:MULU Raw Chocolatesummery greeneryTomato, lentil and vegetable soup

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summer

By Lucy | Published August 8, 2011

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 [...]

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a random hotchpotch of things

By Lucy | Published September 23, 2010

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 [...]

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rhubarb, tweets and elderflowers

By Lucy | Published July 4, 2010

We have a veritable forest of rhubarb so into jam some of it went yesterday! recipe over on frugal where there is also a twitter competition detailed on the front page to win my copy of The Moneyless Man (who is vegan by the way, don’t think I mentioned that before) Gathered some elderflowers in the wood [...]

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among the snowdrops

By Lucy | Published January 30, 2010

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 [...]

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blog, Illich and broth

By Lucy | Published January 23, 2010

Have finally got the blog how I want it – a terrible tale of databases, installations of wordpress and corrupted (by me) css files ensued but I’ve now uploaded the archives (see drop down on sidebar) and cleaned up dead links too Reading a book lent by my mum. She found it while scouring her shelves during the snow [...]

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Halloween quizzes and stories

By admin | Published October 30, 2006

Virtual pumpkin carving - intend doing the real thing today too… and this falling sand game is a bit odd but very ‘moreish’ – just play with it and see! Halloween quizzes – Easy, Tricky or Fiendish - sent by my sister Kids wrote spooky stories this morning. Both very good. Was especially impressed by [...]

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special children

By Lucy | Published May 14, 2006

Really must stop procrastinating and get on with some housework but nice things keep arriving in my inbox today – again from the EO list, this The Ten Commandments for Parents of Special Children though I think it really applies to all children (who of course are all special): 1. Take one day at a [...]

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