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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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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 [...]
garden bits
more garden pics… Planning to just be out there today with my book
Weve all been working very hard recently and some r&r is in order I think. The kids put in a whole days hard labour to do this for winter:
They were very careful not to disturb this gentleman too much – he lives in [...]
good things going on in the world
Firstly, friends of ours are now running a self catering ‘gite’ in the South of France for vegetarians and vegans – it all looks so beautiful: Le Mimosa (link deactivated as no longer running)
Next this fab compilation of recipes, been leafing through it hungrily this morning Has a bit about veganism, then soups, mains, desserts, [...]
Look Me in the Eye
Just finished reading ‘Look Me in the Eye – my life with aspergers’ by John Elder Robison. It is a totally fascinating read on several levels. He has had an interesting life, developing amplifiers and special effects for Kiss and Pink Floyd in the past, moving on to the toy industry then eventually starting his own business [...]
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Lucy, Lucy quite contrary
…lots of gardening been going on, between torrential rain showers. Weve planted up propragaters with various planned things: kale, brocolli (early sprouting), celery and tomatoes; toms I intend growing on in the front porch. I won’t detail them but I may have nightmares about the strange plants the kids chose and that are now growing in their [...]
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birthday
Charlotte is now 13 :D She had a good birthday – started very early indeed watching her gift from Daniel – The Simpsons Movie. Later on we went to the cinema to see The Golden Compass – all thoroughly enjoyed that. I had read the book some time ago and thought it captured the atmosphere well. [...]
let there be light
lots of lights :D Davie had fun with some that the previous owners left us:
Looks very nice out there in the dark
Then in a strange and wonderful ‘great minds and all that’ moment, we received our gifts from the gorgeous Cat. Davie and me have not worn ours yet so they’ll appear in time ;) [...]
lovelies
these arrived in the post this morning:
Book are for review from Grub Street publishers and all look very good at first glance. Strawberries in chocolate are a thank you from the Dr. Hadwen Trust for mentioning them in the vegan family mailing list – they don’t have to pay me at all but I’m not [...]
starry skies equate to…?
… sorry, pitiful attempt at clever title…
Played musical pairs with the snap – goes perfectly with our current piano practice :)
Equate in the sun yesterday - lovely weather continues (colder today though).
Kids made vegetable and barley soup with lots of bits from the garden too.
Stunning skies last night – don’t know when I’ve seen so many stars. [...]
amazing language, wonderful poems
a beautiful ballet book.