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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: education
free rice
donate rice and improve your vocabulary Related posts:maths trekmaths dayLittle cakes and much jumping
earthsea
Our very small, very local home ed group went to see Tales from Earthsea yesterday courtesy of National Schools Films Week (link deactivated for demanding passwords for just showing it!) – do like a bit of anime, us. There was one school in with us – primary 4-7s. It was a bit of a shame for [...]
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 [...]
autumnal
Schools here go back today – can feel that atmosphere in the air. At least it’s not glorious and sunny – that always made it so much harder… It’s incredibly autumnal now – been reminding myself that it’s only August and we should get some more sunshine yet. Love autumn though – there’s a kind [...]
comments on education
Both from the Independent. Now I have only glanced at this years Big Brother, haven’t got into it at all, mainly because any small snatches I’ve seen seemed shallow beyond belief. However some interesting points are made in this article: Big Brother and the Failed Generation Grampian may have the greatest success in those league tables [...]
heritage
Had a great home ed trip to the Fraserburgh Heritage Centre yesterday. Nice to see some new faces in the group, and wow it’s a great museum – lots of hands on stuff for the kids. Such a lot of information there we’ll be returning fairly soon I think… So this is mainly a photofest [...]
piano metaphor
Been playing this one over in my mind (yes it’s going to be fun). The previous owners of the house gave us their old piano – as you know if you’ve been paying attention. If not – then that’s no golden time for you this week :evil: Sorry, back to metaphor, or actually analogy as it’s [...]
learning
Read Paula’s thoughts and links post about the Buddhist talk she attended on the conducive conditions for developing concentration, considered crucial to the development of understanding and wisdom. Wonderful how home ed provides these conditions. Then Cherryann sent me a quote from New Horizons for Learning: “The brain is truly a phenomenal structure, and keeping it [...]
frogs again
Education Failures are a National Tragedy from the Telegraph (seen at aspie home education – such a wonderful source of news!) – some straight talking, no misuse of the word excellence at all! Thank you Cherryann for sending us this elements vid from teachersTV – we all enjoyed that :) Lots of other interesting stuff on there – watched [...]
the waldorf maths post
The children attended a Waldorf school for three terms and I worked there too. I had read lots of Steiner over the years and always liked the whole ethos of it but I was unprepared for how it would look in real life as it were. Before I wax lyrical about the maths I do [...]
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