Category Archives: trips

lovely herbs and the unintended

By Lucy | Published February 9, 2010

Cat has a wonderful new website: The Tasty Herbalist - go see Strange day today where a slight disaster led to us doing totally unintended things such as visiting the Wallace and Gromit exhibition at Satrosphere. It was very good, also being about other animation and techniques etc. Related posts:good things going on in the worldsnow [...]

Also posted in art, films, games, home educational bits, odd | Tagged education, herbs, rabbits, science | 3 Comments

mushrooms and the moon

By Lucy | Published November 29, 2009

Creamy Mushroom Puff (from Yule): Went to a Moonwatch event at Archaeolink last night, very good talk and the cosmic dome was good as usual though sadly it was too cloudy for us to see anything through the huge telescopes they had set up… so here’s something blurry I prepared earlier in the week Related posts:trekking [...]

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WW2, purple soup and festive chocs

By Lucy | Published November 14, 2009

Another Historic Scotland educational event with the home ed group yesterday – very entertaining, I learned things Photographer form P&J there by steps, should be something in Monday. This is what happens when you add red cabbage to miso noodle soup (recipe here, scroll down a bit, there’s also tofu in pictured Disney cartoon soup): [...]

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art, literature and chocolate…

By Lucy | Published October 27, 2009

chocolate sneaks in everywhere here… so will start blog post with it. After going to see the naked people at the art gallery (well worth seeing, wow, the newborn baby, the scared wild man… they speak of human vunerability somehow despite the size) popped into the new health food shop in Aberdeen to find that [...]

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Knight School

By Lucy | Published September 16, 2009

We are highly recommending Historic Scotland’s educational activities - great for home ed or school groups Related posts:stepsbanana mathslet there be light

Also posted in ancient stones, home educational bits | Tagged castle, education, history | 6 Comments

photos

By Lucy | Published September 14, 2009

taken over last couple of days Related posts:just when you worry that the world is mad&#823…speltSlains Castle

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swans and electronics

By Lucy | Published August 5, 2009

Wow – the sun is intense just now though there’s a very autumnal feel in the air too. Love it. This electronics kit was dug out and inflicted on a new victim keen learner Related posts:thoughts on school experiencebusykanji in the sun

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a flower, nice eats and beach

By Lucy | Published July 20, 2009

Chocolate mint layer cake made by a clever friend who is generally good at making things (recipe now in the comments below) White chocolate mousse with red berries. Melt about 100g of cocoa butter and blend into a block of silken tofu with some icing sugar and vanilla… Just loving all the veg and fruit from [...]

Also posted in ancient stones, beach, food, friends, garden, vegan products | Tagged cake, cooking, history | 12 Comments

swimming with the fish

By Lucy | Published July 1, 2009

not in a mafia style way but a ‘lovely hot day, need to be in the sea’ type way a lovely jug of stuff from the garden, added OJ, avo, banana and hemp seeds to it there’s a large section of the woods covered in these: This morning we could tell it was going to be [...]

Also posted in beach, friends, raw, smoothies | Tagged friendship, swimming, wildlife | 7 Comments

jolly

By Lucy | Published June 29, 2009

Gorgeous hot weather continues… gooseberries and rasps from the garden are making their way into the breakfast smoothies now Talking of smoothies, the green smoothie blog has been added to the sidebar, lots of good ideas there. The clearout has reached the kids wardrobes so many more puzzles and educational games are up here In [...]