Among the trees... » woods

Melt 1 bar of chocolate in a Bain Marie (bowl over pan of hot water) along with the marg and syrup. Once nice and smooth, stir in your other ingredients and press mixture into tin. Melt the other bar and spread on top. We topped with sugar stars… chill in fridge until set and cut into squares.

It’s gorgeous… quite different with the Christmas cake but very, very good and dangerously moreish

your calorie requirement for the week in one handy square

frosty

leaping fences in the woods

squash and snuggles

it’s not too late

Lucy — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:14:55 +0000

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 4pm Friday for Christmas Eve delivery.

Ethical Superstore‘s last order dates are Tuesday 20th 12pm for standard delivery and Thursday 22nd for express

The Book People have next day delivery available until the 22nd.

Or you can just say, ‘no, I am not buying anything else,’ and go for a nice walk instead… probably the better option

in the woods

In case we don’t blog before it’s all over, have a happy festive time

bits and pieces

castle and pizza

Autumn colours and education paradigms

winter

Lucy — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:55:25 +0000

loch

trees

cake, garden, misty loch

of Russians and swans

squash and snuggles

far over the misty mountains cold…

Lucy — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:16:40 +0000

but no dungeons deep or caverns old…

we start with a mince pie

up through the trees

onto the mountain face

Hill in question: Bennachie

mither tap obscured by mist

misty cairn

and yes, a moo free chocolate Santa made it up there… very impressive on his fat little legs *patronises chocolate fondly*

aww bless...

swans and electronics

piano metaphor

praxinoscope

lots of pictures of a digger

Lucy — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:15:16 +0000

yellow and blue

I’m not actually trying to appeal to an entirely new demographic (three year old boys) but I like the contrasts here; well I like the colors, the conflicting realities of the situation are not quite so pleasing. Wind turbines are great but lovely trees being destroyed to make way for them seems an ironic destruction. Miles of track has been widened to let the much larger crane in and many very large Scots Pines have had chunks carved out of them… *primal urge to protect trees kicks in, glares at digger*

resuming pretty colors…

big digger

dig

The picture does not convey quite how large and deep that hole is – if you fall in there you’re not coming out!

hmm... would quite like a go, actually... no tree hurting obviously...

and because I love it, The JCB Song:

RSPB, workbooks, 5 Tibetans

is there anything you can’t make with le...

moon during eclipse