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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
red dragon pie posted on January 9, 2012 
moo free Easter egg posted on February 3, 2012 
About posted on January 14, 2010 
gourmet raw brownies and crisps posted on January 17, 2012 
Solstice Chocolate Refrigerator Christmas Cake posted on December 22, 2011 
Scottish macaroons posted on January 24, 2010 
sunshine, sky and yellow leaves posted on October 28, 2011 
piano metaphor posted on April 24, 2007 
first ever blog post posted on June 7, 2005 
graze posted on October 13, 2010
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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: vegan products
moo free Easter egg
Open the box and it hits you: that exciting, sugary Easter Egg scent from childhood. I don’t know why chocolate should smell different when formed into an egg shape, but it does. Dark chocolate eggs are of course gorgeous, but altogether more grown up. This is the one for children and those who don’t like [...]
ice, a pie and Burn’s Night
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) [...]
gourmet raw brownies and crisps
But first to the crisps: completely guilt free, dried raw squares of tastiness. The three flavours are Beetroot, Spicy Thai and Red Pepper and they’re all very good… …but the absolute winner for us was the red pepper. Reminiscent of pizza, these would be very nice little crackers too. Topped with a small slice of [...]
it’s not too late
to make a Christmas cake or plan your vegan Christmas dinner to buy a vegan cookbook or kids book – today, Monday 19th is the last day for free shipping with Amazon but there are various other delivery choices all week. to get a t-shirt from us, the deadline is 20th Dec with express shipping order from hotel chocolat by [...]
slightly festive thoughts
see that orange glow at the side? Sitting room fire reflected in window Have just added a ‘pick of the vegan Christmas chocolate’ bit to the chocolate room. Here it is: Hotel Chocolat’s Gianduja Bombe, the Moo Free choc Santa and Rudolph The Reindeer from hotel chocolat again… Also added this Pyramid Rosemary Tree to [...]
far over the misty mountains cold…
but no dungeons deep or caverns old… Hill in question: Bennachie and yes, a moo free chocolate Santa made it up there… very impressive on his fat little legs *patronises chocolate fondly* Related posts:10 years on… and forest fruits…a day of trains, mountains and friendswinter solstice
Also posted in ancient stones, food, friends, woods
Tagged mountain, Scotland, sweet, views, walk
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it approaches… chocolate calendar time…
Yes, the time of year when it’s acceptable to eat a chocolate each day first thing in the morning… I hope those little images align properly in everyone’s browsers, else they won’t make sense The Modern Housewife Series Vol 1 is doing a countdown to Vegan Christmas starting on Nov 18th… but back to those [...]
kissing is still in fashion
No matter how cold it gets there’s always one somewhere Seasonal bits: Frugal Christmas and Vegan Yule have been updated and weeded free of dead links and outdated information. Lebkuchen from Lidl now contain butter Drawing attention to Rose Elliot’s Vegetarian Christmas just now (see last years blog review of it) as it is currently [...]
beautiful day
lentil soup recipe added to frugal and I found this exciting, £1.49 from Amazon: and the phenomenal apple abundance continues unabated… Related posts:Kew and Kwanzaagardencatkins and cheeze
summer
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 [...]
