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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
Amazon.co.uk
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
an abundance of snowdrops posted on January 28, 2012 
red dragon pie posted on January 9, 2012 
graze posted on October 13, 2010 
About posted on January 14, 2010 
ice, a pie and Burn’s Night posted on January 21, 2012 
gourmet raw brownies and crisps posted on January 17, 2012 
Scottish macaroons posted on January 24, 2010 
archeaology posted on August 26, 2008 
Solstice Chocolate Refrigerator Christmas Cake posted on December 22, 2011 
save the earth posted on June 6, 2008
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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: festive
moo free Easter egg
Open the box and it hits you: that exciting, sugary Easter Egg scent from childhood. I don’t know why chocolate should smell different when formed into an egg shape, but it does. Dark chocolate eggs are of course gorgeous, but altogether more grown up. This is the one for children and those who don’t like [...]
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Also tagged It's the, sweet, vegan, vegetarian
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ice, a pie and Burn’s Night
sage and onion potato pie vegan haggis from goodness direct and our old Burn’s Night blogpost from 2008 complete with poetry and music! other Scottish recipes you might like for Burn’s Night: skirlie (oatmeal stuffing) cranachan – pudding of oats, (soya) cream, whiskey and raspberries Balmoral Pie (scroll down through the mains, it has pics) [...]
Glazed Parsnips and Carrots with Pistachio
Yule Dinner Everyone agreed that this side dish was the best, it’s been added to Vegan Christmas/Yule but is reproduced here too as it’s not just for Christmas but good anytime recipe: 8 medium parsnips (you can of course use bigger/smaller and adjust quantities) 8 medium carrots a little sunflower oil to rub a couple of [...]
Solstice Chocolate Refrigerator Christmas Cake
You will need: 1 square cake tin, greased 2 100g bars of good chocolate 1 tablespoon of margarine 1 tablespoon of golden syrup 1 200g pack of bourbon biscuits (other biscuits will do), bashed up and here’s the Christmassy part… a crumbled slice of Christmas cake including bits of marzipan and icing a handful of [...]
it’s not too late
to make a Christmas cake or plan your vegan Christmas dinner to buy a vegan cookbook or kids book – today, Monday 19th is the last day for free shipping with Amazon but there are various other delivery choices all week. to get a t-shirt from us, the deadline is 20th Dec with express shipping order from hotel chocolat by [...]
slightly festive thoughts
see that orange glow at the side? Sitting room fire reflected in window Have just added a ‘pick of the vegan Christmas chocolate’ bit to the chocolate room. Here it is: Hotel Chocolat’s Gianduja Bombe, the Moo Free choc Santa and Rudolph The Reindeer from hotel chocolat again… Also added this Pyramid Rosemary Tree to [...]
it approaches… chocolate calendar time…
Yes, the time of year when it’s acceptable to eat a chocolate each day first thing in the morning… I hope those little images align properly in everyone’s browsers, else they won’t make sense The Modern Housewife Series Vol 1 is doing a countdown to Vegan Christmas starting on Nov 18th… but back to those [...]
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kissing is still in fashion
No matter how cold it gets there’s always one somewhere Seasonal bits: Frugal Christmas and Vegan Yule have been updated and weeded free of dead links and outdated information. Lebkuchen from Lidl now contain butter Drawing attention to Rose Elliot’s Vegetarian Christmas just now (see last years blog review of it) as it is currently [...]
Vegetarian Christmas
An older book, now out of print, but I don’t think anything has come along to best it as a veggie festive title (do comment if you know otherwise!). I got the hardback out of the library something like 18/19 years ago and it impacted me. The gorgeousness of Christmas food, the hints on preparing [...]
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winter
Visually there are still some autumnal things going on: How did I miss the twenty pence piece beside it? Only noticed it in the photo! *plans reconnaissance mission* But the temperature tells the true story. Hot water bottle season is upon us. Winds whip round the house and through the trees. Vegan Yule and Frugal Christmas are [...]
