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a random hotchpotch of things

By Lucy | Published September 23, 2010

education: Potatoes for Schools registration is now open for 2011 – free seed potatoes, available to home educators too The BBC Scottish History section is very good, nice timelines going on. on self esteem: We Teach What We Are - a blog from Wayne Dyer on the best we can do for young people. Page 20 [...]

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fruitful flowers and summer reading

By Lucy | Published June 24, 2010

It’s wonderfully warm here just now. In between all the cycling, walking, climbing and meeting badgers in the woods were loving the cool of the pool and reading in the sun Fiction being perused: Mariana, a gentle tale of reincarnation and time slipping and the latest Sophie Hannah, A Room Swept White – very impressed [...]

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planting log, sitting, eating, stones and sea

By Lucy | Published May 15, 2010

I have just planted over 300 little leeks, lots of kale and purple sprouting brocolli seedlings, carrots, radish, garlic, basil, sunflowers and flat leaf parsley as an alternative to the madly (but wonderfully) continually self seeding curly The thinking of the planting this year is to grow things that both do well up here and that [...]

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bloggage, food and snow

By Lucy | Published January 6, 2010

First off the Home Baked blog is having a monthly baking challenge – read about it here and see January’s theme here. I’m the guest judge this month – v exciting Then we have a new blog on the sidebar – Vegan Kid - lots of gorgeous looking food there too… Then, thanks to the Skint [...]

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a very green Good Friday

By Lucy | Published April 10, 2009

Today’s green smoothie. Greens from garden are bunches of scarlet kale, leaf beet and parsley:   add to that 1 avocado, 3 bananas, 1 litre orange juice - that would make a nice smoothie but I added these superfoods today too: handful gojis, tablespoon raw choc nibs, 2 teaspoons spirulina, 1 tablespoon barleygrass powder, 2 tablespoons [...]

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is there anything you can’t make with lego?

By admin | Published August 15, 2006

saw this over at Making It Up and were all quite taken with it – an illustrated bible in lego. Just went through Exodus – children quite shocked by some of it – Prince of Egypt was obviously vastly edited :) Charlotte thought this was Tony Blair – though franky some of Judges is not suitable for [...]

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chocolate rice pud

By Lucy | Published April 23, 2006

Reading about Elderfairy’s new swings and the fact that it appeared to be the start of summer today inspired a new ‘life skills’ lesson: cleaning swings/slide/rocky thing. There were no complaints, think it was quite satisfying as the winter mildew stuff came off fairly easily Then they moved on to the outside table and chairs [...]

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