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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.
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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very powerful for it's size
smaller price than Vitamix
great containers too
The Tribest Personal Blender
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Coconut oil is a youth enhancing, beautiful smelling moisturiser, a healthy cooking oil and a hair conditioner...
from amazon.co.ukor Amazon.com
books
Detox Your World: Quick and Lasting Results for a Beautiful Mind, Body and Spirit. A fabulous guide to optimal healthy living.
Buy UK or Buy US
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
an abundance of snowdrops posted on January 28, 2012 
red dragon pie posted on January 9, 2012 
graze posted on October 13, 2010 
About posted on January 14, 2010 
ice, a pie and Burn’s Night posted on January 21, 2012 
gourmet raw brownies and crisps posted on January 17, 2012 
Scottish macaroons posted on January 24, 2010 
archeaology posted on August 26, 2008 
Solstice Chocolate Refrigerator Christmas Cake posted on December 22, 2011 
save the earth posted on June 6, 2008
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These creamy white buttons make the most amazing white hot chocolate! See Cat's recipe on The Modern Housewife blog.
Category Archives: resources
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 [...]
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, savoury [...]
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 [...]
free rice
donate rice and improve your vocabulary Related posts:bullying and anatomical colouringloveliesChessmen and Star Wars shoes
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 [...]
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 [...]
drawing
Feeling all excited and happy about home ed plans for upcoming “term” iyswim :D Today we started the Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain course we purchased after Seoirse mentioned it in comments. It really is excellent. This morning weve done the pre-instruction self portraits (Daniel said I hadn’t made my wrinkles defined enough!) and the first lesson, [...]
