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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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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.
Tag Archives: education
Bring on the Learning Revolution!
The title of Ken Robinson’s new follow up talk to his wonderful Schools Kill Creativity one from 2006. His book, The Element is also excellent Related posts:Burning of the Claviefrogsarcheaology
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. Related posts:Advent candlesrainbows and marzipantriffids
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 snow [...]
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): [...]
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 Related posts:world vegan day, maths, gravespigeona day in the trees
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 the [...]
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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 [...]
finally getting round to a few things
such as: looking at energy comparisons and have switched using uSwitch’s Energy Price Comparison Calculator (edit in: see frugal.org.uk for current equivalents of this), 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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
