Category Archives: odd

ice, a pie and Burn’s Night

By Lucy | Published January 21, 2012

sage and onion potato pie vegan haggis from goodness direct and our old Burn’s Night blogpost from 2008 complete with poetry and music! other Scottish recipes you might like for Burn’s Night: skirlie (oatmeal stuffing) cranachan – pudding of oats, (soya) cream, whiskey and raspberries Balmoral Pie (scroll down through the mains, it has pics) [...]

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lots of pictures of a digger

By Lucy | Published November 12, 2011

I’m not actually trying to appeal to an entirely new demographic (three year old boys) but I like the contrasts here; well I like the colors, the conflicting realities of the situation are not quite so pleasing. Wind turbines are great but lovely trees being destroyed to make way for them seems an ironic destruction. [...]

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Autumn is here

By Lucy | Published September 10, 2011

Glowing log burner… Experimental post using only iPod… Knitwear Montbrecia over pond. Hmm… is very quick and easy but photos not the best… Related posts:photosis there anything you can’t make with le…ice, a pie and Burn’s Night

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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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random pictures

By Lucy | Published May 24, 2011

for which there with be little or no explanation… Related posts:February 2008Dunnydeer stone circlewater stone ice

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something fell from the sky again

By Lucy | Published December 20, 2010

Related posts:wavessnow and trollshot and sunny

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Chessmen and Star Wars shoes

By Lucy | Published November 15, 2010

Visited the Lewis Chessmen at Aberdeen Art Gallery (other Scottish tour dates) – they are beautiful  though I really can’t see Jabba the Hut wearing the green basketball boots that have been named for him… Related posts:Kew and Kwanzaapacifiers and realistsmild and calm

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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:the fridge postbones and rubbleHalloween 2008

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The Artist’s Way and a giveaway!

By Lucy | Published August 10, 2010

Reading The Artist’s Way just now (after hearing about it on making it up), faithfully doing my morning pages, 3 pages of early morning scrawlings, uncensored beautiful brain drain, and recovering my creativity, dealing with my blurts of negativity and realising where they originated… very powerful stuff :)  I have experienced these sorts of connections through art [...]

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Notorious Kitsch

By Lucy | Published July 28, 2010

I was a very lucky girl recently on twitter and won a retweeting competition from Notorious Kitsch! My chosen goodies are above (and no, Willow will not be having her dinner off them ), they have lots of other gorgeous retro things including clocks, phones, aprons, bags, cards etc. It was hard to pick Roadhouse Cafe [...]

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