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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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books of the moment
The Artists Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self - an intensely powerful and synchronistic way of clearing blocks, old psychological patterns and dysfunctions of the past. Get doing your morning pages, they're amazing!
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fabulous guide to foraging in Britain.
full version or pocket guide (both uk amazon)
amazing Russian books these: spirituality; growing; living naturally; raising children with love and respect; quite magical. Release any preconceived ideas of how life should be (or books) and create your space of love!
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A very well researched novel which, alongside Picoult's usual 'heading to a trial' plot, explores many facets of and perspectives on Asperger's Syndrome. The potential and common effects of AS on siblings is especially well documented here. As gripping and informative a book as Nineteen Minutes
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a great storehouse of food growing knowledge from Dirty Nails :)
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"Girls just wanna have... wanna have fun...", and we still are :)
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Popular Posts
sheep, a candle, a cake and the sky posted on September 5, 2010 
flower and butterfly posted on September 1, 2010 
Spring pics posted on March 17, 2010 
first ever blog post posted on June 7, 2005 
mellow posted on June 6, 2010 
About posted on January 14, 2010 
cake posted on August 29, 2010 
cup of tea, anyone? posted on July 17, 2010 
a flower, nice eats and beach posted on July 20, 2009 
a walk in the woods and ice cream posted on September 8, 2010
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Tag Archives: friendship
swimming with the fish
not in a mafia style way but a ‘lovely hot day, need to be in the sea’ type way a lovely jug of stuff from the garden, added OJ, avo, banana and hemp seeds to it there’s a large section of the woods covered in these: This morning we could tell it was going to be [...]
hot
The weather!! It’s just amazing… had a lovely, almost enchanted day yesterday doing bits around the house and woods with friends. and here is the mint tyre (a big Jaguar one – thank you Ben ), makes a good little raised bed for the applemint and garden mint there. More big beds yet to be built [...]
girls go up the mountain
This was actually yesterday morning: Got to give a mention to Moonrabbits Cotton Comforts who were included in a two year study of reusable pads from around the world by Brunel University – they came 1st for value and were in the top 3 for being well made, comfy etc. Fab Now on to today and [...]
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Also tagged mountain, trees, views
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Gorgeous Graduation
Hopped off the train in Glasgow and trotted along to Stereo where I failed to take photos of much of the food and it was all so wonderful! The spicy potato soup is below but we also had a mezze platter, big breakfast, haggis fritters, chilli nachos, ice cream and sticky toffee pudding: Over at Cat’s: Fabulous [...]
candles, bread, pie, soup and dogs
been some baking and candle making… Had joiners here fitting some new doors and windows – they needed the outside lights on which makes everything look different: nice weather for sheperdess pie Nicola’s golden vegetable soup (a weightwatchers recipe): Related posts:a card, a chocolate log and two boyspie and bedwhere the wild things are
Halloween 2008
a gentle start to the day: getting costumed up: then off to the party!! Moonrabbit Lucy’s fabulous animatronic butler – speaks, breathes, turns head and eyes… and a little education did happen too Daytime pics of graves as I, correctly, doubted my camera’s night-time abilities… The witches walk took place in the dark with [...]
a day of trains, mountains and friends
It’s the tattie holidays – we get to see more of our friends who go to school Starting off at the Strathspey railway on a steam train seen in ‘Monarch of the Glen’ as Glenbogle but it’s actually Broomhill station First sight of the train (there’s going to be a LOT of pictures) The autumn [...]
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Also tagged mountain, trains
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over the sea to
Skye! Had fab week with old friends, staying on the Northernmost tip of the island, generally having a good laugh and fun :) Had great views up there both back to the mainland and across to Lewis. Come back feeling all relaxed and refreshed… so photofest ahoy! (mouseovers) more on flickr… driving down sides of lochs: and [...]
Posted in ancient stones, beach, books, friends, home educational bits, reviews, trips
Also tagged castle, island, reading
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white horse on Mormond Hill
Mother’s Day trip up here with friends today: Related posts:purple smoothie and igloothe sacking of deer abbeypile of stones
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February 2008
totally lost the archives for this month but they exist in photographic form on flickr if you want to take a peek There was a fab trip to stay with Cat in Glasgow, paper making with HE group, solar powered boat, chinese food, snow and DS English and Maths… little bits below Related posts:Transformationimpressions of a [...]
