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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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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
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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
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Category Archives: resources
band of brothers
Had quite an academic learning type day today. We sat and reviewed our maths learning from the past year and then warmed up slowly with Potty Professors and some of the harder magic squares from here. The children still expect and worry that they’re going to get it all wrong, a leftover from school, though it is [...]
birthday and boxes
Danger School! shamelessly stolen from Paula yet again :) It’s long but bravely speaking truths. Daniel is now 14 :) Had a nice lunch out on the day and some fun. Other that that it’s been all boxes and phonecalls to solicitors. Visited our new house again yesterday… all very exciting. Things may well be quiet for a [...]
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geometry
in the form of festive crafts – how perfectly HE :) Our 20 faced shapes – icosahedrons – from all free crafts. We stapled them rather than using glue but that did turn out quite tricky, having to flatten them out all the time. Our walks just get more beautiful as the nights draw in… Related [...]
writing and books
We do seem to be talking a lot about writing lately. A couple of nights ago I read the children the updated (1999) introduction to Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot (1975) about the early influences in his writing career and childhood. They were quite fascinated (and a little scared!). Today we did a Dr. Who writing [...]
balls
A couple of images from yesterday’s walk: Today kids played Trilemma and then we dug out this Hyperlauncher kit that weve had for a while. We read up on Polymers in this wonderful Science Dictionary and then got to making the balls :) Great fun. Once we’d made enough and let them dry out a bit [...]
Halloween quizzes and stories
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 [...]
flood and fire
We watched this great little film thing on the Fibonacci Sequence here from Brain Pop (saw this at Aspie Home Education) and Daniel has been learning Japanese with this CD Rom lent by friends – great fun with the games. Yesterday’s floods in the woods and today’s trip to a Wickerman festival… mouseover for little comments [...]
very windy
don’t know if it’s the hurricane tail or not. Did lots of indoor things today. Charlotte had some Eerie English and Momentous Maths – she still really likes those, have ordered a couple more in the series. Dan was on 2xl again. Kids now play a maths game while I hoover round first thing. Today [...]
techfest
Brilliant link of educational games linked into Nobel Prizewinners – a Lord of the Flies one, just perfect for us!! Had a good day out yesterday at Techfest. First time weve been to the schools weeks with the he group. Links given to us by the ladies from the Cosmic Dome yesterday: http://www.mreclipse.com – eclipses [...]
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throwing plants into the equation
Had a very good game of Equate today – kinda like Scrabble but with equations. I liked that – seemed more like thinking for yourself as opposed to doing the sums set by someone else. You end up doing a lot of mental calculation to find an equation that you can do with your pieces. [...]
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