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Living in the North of Scotland, vegan, home educating, dancing, cake eating, writing, 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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recipe of the moment
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things we like
Salt of the Earth deodorant
totally natural and awesome!
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Beautifully pure laundry nuts... better for the planet and your skin... works out cheap too.
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The greatest blender ever...
The Vitamix!
Used daily by us :)
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Coconut oil is a youth enhancing, beautiful smelling moisturiser, a healthy cooking oil and a hair conditioner...
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books
A great little guide to Britain's wild foods
Amazon.co.uk
How to Grow Your Own Food: A Week-by-week Guide to Wild Life Friendly Fruit and Vegetable Gardening - actually a very good, humorous read too. Full of practical advice for getting the most food out of your garden.
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Popular Posts
three vegan childhoods posted on May 8, 2012 
About posted on January 14, 2010 
piano metaphor posted on April 24, 2007 
Toby posted on April 23, 2012 
flowers, water, books and sunshine posted on May 5, 2012 
sweet things posted on July 27, 2010 
planting log, sitting, eating, stones and sea posted on May 15, 2010 
first ever blog post posted on June 7, 2005 
wild garlic posted on April 1, 2009 
red dragon pie posted on January 9, 2012
Category Archives: music
tra la la la
Everything feeling all Christmassy but relaxed here. I get sleepier as we approach the solstice every year and perk up again in January. Been having some deep thoughts (stop groaning at the back!). Can’t really describe it clearly but it’s about love really. How some of us are being drawn to live our lives in [...]
bedecked
Bright sunny day – really mild too. Been having some moments of great joy, remembering where weve come from and marvelling at where we are now – in many ways. Sitting here I look out on dark silhouettes of high pine trees over by the loch – they are backed by a silvery blue sky [...]
remembrance
Very good weekend. Yesterday we watched the ceremony at the Cenotaph on TV – kids found it very interesting and insisted on continuing to listen to the rest of it on Radio 4 in the car on the way over to my Mum’s for lunch. Saw various war memorials with their new wreaths on the way. [...]
favourite things
Been doing some bits and pieces. Charlotte’s writing a play, Daniel’s studying politics, I’ve been baking, making full use of the new oven: pizza recipe from top left clockwise: 3 spelt loaves, white rolls, spelt sunflower round, white tin, white plait, onion and poppy, cottage, garlic and herb square: Watched one of my favourite films, [...]
art, music, literature, french
Went on to our negative spaces drawing of a chair in the art course. Too gorgeous a day to stay inside for it so we set up outside – looks like were making ready for a show but this is what we were meant to do with the chairs! Quite a good exercise I thought, [...]
woods, hands, feet, bread and soup…
Yesterday we travelled back to a wood we used to walk in a lot where we lived before, with the aim of collecting conkers (lots gathered). It was rather strange – it’s a lovely big wood, lots of paths, huge trees, gorgeous autumnal colours appearing but it felt like something was missing. It didn’t feel [...]
bits and bobs of education
weve been up to. Measured the sunflower this morning – it’s 8’11″ – so lovely and strong these flowers. Weve been playing Trilemma as a good re-stretch of maths abilities, all seems to have been well retained over summer. Had a go on the Skoool site for Pythagoras again, quite fun, like how they have [...]
singstar
Been having a nice time with family and friends. Lots of chatting while sitting on sofas eating ice cream , listening to very loud singstar 80s – must have been really loud as we heard it. *somewhat irrelevant side note* One of the things I love about this house compared to the last one is [...]
sunny pi
Had a different school experience this morning. A whole load of people walked up the track, adults and teens – a school trip here? We see about one person in three weeks on the track and it’s private land so it seemed a bit unlikely, however it was. Must have been from a local special [...]
piano metaphor
Been playing this one over in my mind (yes it’s going to be fun). The previous owners of the house gave us their old piano – as you know if you’ve been paying attention. If not – then that’s no golden time for you this week :evil: Sorry, back to metaphor, or actually analogy as it’s [...]
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