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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: friendship
Spring pics
free veg seeds from the bbc here Related posts:books and stonesrainbowLoudon Wood, feet and newts
polytunnels and taps
Weve had a few spring-like days now, causing me to dig over some ground for the little polytunnel and clean and set up the coldframe to let the ground warm up for salad seeds. Browsing Suttons trying to decide what to plant this year – will have more room with extra raised beds… this really [...]
Posted in books, films, friends, garden, home educational bits, vegan products
Also tagged dance, DIY, grow, memories
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swan lake
There were swans on the loch yesterday Had a lovely day with friends morphing into a very balletic afternoon which was great fun. It’s been wonderful rediscovering ballet being for enjoyment, rather than an eternal striving (not to mention starving) for perfection. Looked out the old class music etc. I have but it’s all on cassettes – [...]
a casserole and a cookbook
We will have been married 20 years this year… which causes me to reflect how far weve come, how much the world has changed in that time and to note the two items above. They were given to us as a wedding present by friends who I used to babysit for and here they are still [...]
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Also tagged cooking, herbs, memories, reading, time, vegan, vegetarian
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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:Brodiefriends and mince piesCrimbo
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 [...]
