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Living in the North of Scotland, vegan, home educating, cake eating, 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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Tag Archives: education
lovely herbs and the unintended
Cat has a wonderful new website: The Tasty Herbalist - go see
Strange day today where a slight disaster led to us doing totally unintended things such as visiting the Wallace and Gromit exhibition at Satrosphere. It was very good, also being about other animation and techniques etc.
Posted in art, films, games, home educational bits, odd, trips
Also tagged herbs, rabbits, science
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blog, Illich and broth
Have finally got the blog how I want it – a terrible tale of databases, installations of wordpress and corrupted (by me) css files ensued but I’ve now uploaded the archives (see drop down on sidebar) and cleaned up dead links too
Reading a book lent by my mum. She found it while scouring her shelves during the [...]
Posted in blogroll, books, food, home educational bits, links, reviews
Also tagged big bad, reading, soup
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WW2, purple soup and festive chocs
Another Historic Scotland educational event with the home ed group yesterday – very entertaining, I learned things
Photographer form P&J there by steps, should be something in Monday.
This is what happens when you add red cabbage to miso noodle soup (recipe here, scroll down a bit, there’s also tofu in pictured Disney cartoon soup):
onto [...]
Posted in food, home educational bits, trips, vegan products
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Knight School
We are highly recommending Historic Scotland’s educational activities - great for home ed or school groups
he-art
he-art – (from the flyer) the first ever national exhibition of art by home educated children. Have you a fascination for photography? A passion for paint? Charmed by charcoal? Then be a part of he-art! Home educated children from all corners of the country express “why I love home-ed”
random game pieces (from settlers of [...]
Posted in art, home educational bits
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steps
not feeling terribly inspired to blog, been up to eyes in the air purifying paint – nice stuff, but many walls to go… so just popping up these Fyvie Castle pics from last week else they’ll get forgotten about:
camera then ran out of battery so no pics of baby ducks, swans and geese but they [...]
finally getting round to a few things
such as: looking at energy comparisons and have switched using uSwitch’s Energy Price Comparison Calculator, a lot easier than I thought, they do all the switch over stuff - there are still some companies offering fixed tarriffs though some have been pulled today…
preparations for the long planned mural painting have begun, utilising paint left by previous [...]
trees, poetry and latin
Ah well, the best laid plans and all that – ended up being a really busy morning and now the piano tuner is here. I am using this enforced stay in time to write this post on educational bits long promised
We were really delighted to find a horse chestnut tree in a hidden bit [...]
Posted in books, films, home educational bits
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after a little blog break…
It’s been a busy month of visiting friends both here and there iyswim. Had a fab residential home ed group trip where the kids ran amock in the woods and the adults got to chat and drink wine and eat chocolate cake. It was HOT, actually HOT, hoping this bodes well for the rest of [...]
bits and bobs of education
weve been up to. Measured the sunflower this morning – it’s 8′11″ – so lovely and strong these flowers.
Weve been playing Trilemma as a good re-stretch of maths abilities, all seems to have been well retained over summer. Had a go on the Skoool site for Pythagoras again, quite fun, like how they have a [...]
amazing language, wonderful poems
a beautiful ballet book.