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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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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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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
About posted on January 14, 2010 
three vegan childhoods posted on May 8, 2012 
flowers, water, books and sunshine posted on May 5, 2012 
planting log, sitting, eating, stones and sea posted on May 15, 2010 
red dragon pie posted on January 9, 2012 
Happy Birthday Charlotte :) posted on December 15, 2006 
first ever blog post posted on June 7, 2005 
gourmet raw brownies and crisps posted on January 17, 2012 
piano metaphor posted on April 24, 2007 
old pictures posted on January 19, 2010
Tag Archives: big bad
macbeth
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble… and then the actor said, “your teachers do this in the staffroom before you get to school each morning” and I felt a fit of the giggles come on which stayed with me through the whole performance. This afternoon we went to this play and the kids old school were [...]
sandstorm
Had a quiet day yesterday doing some more maths, postcard writing and lots of sudoku. Charlotte and I have a bit of an addiction going there – at least it’s not a fattening or unhealthy one :) Depressed myself a bit by doing a silly comparison of Big Brother and the secondary school I went to – [...]
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maths day
Last night Daniel asked me ‘do we have any exciting plans for tomorrow?’ The poor child had an oscar winning moment of shrieking ‘NO‘ and wringing his hands when I told him we were having a maths day. Honestly – I still have so much damage to undo from his first 6 years of school! Didn’t [...]
sea lettuce
A little anniversary for us today – why am I so good at remembering these dates? Two years ago today I took Daniel out of state school and got our GP to sign him off indefinitely until we decided what to do. I also informed the headmaster that he would not be back until totally [...]
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pacifiers and realists
Been having more thoughts about school/home education stuff (long ramble ahead!). Should point out in advance that most of what’s to come does not apply to the Waldorf school my kids attended. It had it’s faults but the teachers did tend to put the children first. Most of them thought very deeply (and sometimes rather [...]
fling the teacher
This is just fabulous – Fling the Teacher – you choose your history subject, dress up your teacher and then have to answer 15 questions correctly for the teacher to be flung by trebuchet. Questions definitely seem on the hard side but Daniel did it with the Tribes of Mesoamerica. He was a bit critical [...]
repression
Catriona has just pointed out to me that we seem to be doing more socialising since weve been home ed. It is perfectly true. The children are no longer peer-segregated and repressed* for long periods of time so their social circle is far wider and they are more confident in it. I know my children [...]
bullying and anatomical colouring
Merry has written an interesting post on school bullying policies on her blog. Well worth a look – no wonder so many people leave school with such a negative outlook on life and low self esteem. Bullying is more or less just accepted as the norm now, certainly in state schools. What sort of lesson [...]
the snow queen and a caste system
Braved the snowdrifts this morning and headed into Aberdeen. Had wonderful lunch at the Lemon Tree ( in Aberdeen, edit in 2010 – has changed hands since but still does vegan food, not marked on menu as before). They have live jazz music on weekend lunchtimes – we all really enjoyed that. Love the way [...]
snow and trolls
SNOW! It’s very wet and all melts as soon as it lands but it does keep falling. Not enough for a at all. Went on a shopping trip this morning and the temperature was 0c and it’s now risen to 1c. Will definitely need to add scarves and gloves to our walk-wear today. Saw a [...]
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