Tag Archives: frogs

heron in the trees

By Lucy | Published November 27, 2011

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the tale of the strawberries

By Lucy | Published July 21, 2010

Once upon a time a princess planted 3 tiny strawberry plants in her garden. They began to grow. Then, despite being guarded by a beady eyed and brave fox, they were eaten down to the quick by saucy young rabbits who were very numerous throughout that kingdom. Over the summer one of the plants recovered and produced [...]

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frogs and barre

By Lucy | Published March 19, 2010

It’s all very magical down there in the pond – just been out listening to them tonight by the light of the moon Below should be a short video of them – turn up your volume to hear their frenzied ribbuting! Apologies for the poor picture quality – they are more shy than they appear [...]

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garden bits

By Lucy | Published July 17, 2008

more garden pics…  Planning to just be out there today with my book Weve all been working very hard recently and some r&r is in order I think. The kids put in a whole days hard labour to do this for winter: They were very careful not to disturb this gentleman too much – he [...]

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holidaytime

By admin | Published June 30, 2007

Weve been having a lovely holiday time with Cat for the last few days. Weve had wonderful chats, good food, late night singing, film watching, book reading (Cat brought down some fantastic medical books for us), beach and loch walking, herb gathering and preparation, swimming in rain (no photos – be glad), toy and book shopping… [...]

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frogs again

By admin | Published April 12, 2007

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 [...]

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frogs

By admin | Published March 12, 2007

This morning weve meditated, done yoga, played Trilemma, read up on crested newts and sat by the pond drawing the frogs and other things… in pics: Related posts:gorgeous glasgowfab photographybig garden post

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cake and cannibalism

By admin | Published March 11, 2007

First the cake – totally fantastic, very rich and flavourful – the carrot macadamia ginger coconut (may have those in wrong order) cake from Vegan with a Vengeance again. It’s just too handy having the town nearby. Charlotte and I nipped over there this afternoon to get the missing ingredients. Alas the poor bowl. I [...]

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frog pics

By admin | Published March 10, 2007

this is my best effort yet – they are out in full force today in both the big pond bits. Being very brave and just ignoring us little row of them: We also found a mega patch of spawn up in the loch, sort of fenced off with reeds, and saw a tiny frog in [...]

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2 clumps

By admin | Published March 10, 2007

 of spawn in the pond this morning – and they’re still busy laying. Each time I look out there is more Had a really good day yesterday at the lighthouse with the HE group. Met some lovely new people – girls were all exchanging their emails. Have been to this museum many times over the [...]

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