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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...
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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
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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
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: woods
a youtube mix
Little bits that weve been watching/seeing/thinking about/liking. First a 9 second clip of Mikhail Baryshnikov’s 11 turn pirouette from White Nights: Ellen Degeneres on being vegan: Then this clip from the Magic Sword reminds me of walking in our woods here, all wild and magical. It was the first film we took the children to see [...]
early morning walk
Related posts:a flower, nice eats and beachmaths and yew treestrees for life
squash and snuggles
There is a pumpkin soup recipe and a butternut squash recipe on our soup page, though lately weve been enjoying them in a creamy soup thus: peel, deseed and chop squash of choice, cover with water and bring to boil. Add in onion, lots of garlic, a chilli and salt to taste. Blend up with a [...]
Autumn colours and education paradigms
Below, a beautifully animated talk by Ken Robinson: Related posts:Freedom!praxinoscopespiral in the sand
sea and roots
cool little thing this – The Scale of the Universe Related posts:flower of ScotlandPeregrinesstripey sky and flapjacks
a fleeting season
Related posts:bread and jamwoods, hands, feet, bread and soup…yellow flowers
October already and thoughts of chocolate
It doesn’t seem long since I was looking forward to the long months of summer yet to come. They whisked by in a flurry of mountains, gardening, a broken arm, sunbathing, swimming, boogie boarding, transformations, eating home produce, preserving, cycling, walking, learning, dancing, writing, reading… well there you are, it’s really Autumn now. Wild winds [...]
a walk in the woods and ice cream
Some pics taken before it turned all rainy, before I got drenched walking in the woods, before it became necessary to make hot chocolate sauce for ice cream… it’s a good reason – try it Related posts:getting better all the time…Tap o’ Noth and Dunnydeerfinally… a blog post
a different loch and wood :)
Had a lovely day out with friends at Millbuies Country Park Oddly, I took the photo of the butterfly on a buddliea plant in the post below while waiting to meet up with our friends at a garden centre. They later bought that plant! Related posts:snow and treesloud chat and mountainscherry tree
preserving
What a bumper year it’s been for the currants – were having berried up green smoothies daily, there are lots in freezer which will extend the berry smoothie season and it’s looking to be a very abundant bramble year too. Last year we gathered quite a lot for the freezer as well as smoothie-ing them [...]
