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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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These creamy white buttons make the most amazing white hot chocolate! See Cat's recipe on The Modern Housewife blog.
Tag Archives: grow
this morning
setting the above as my desktop (click for bigger image – creative commons so anyone can download) doing: 5 Tibetans listening: Gregorian Chant (CD bought on our visit to Pluscarden Abbey a couple of years ago) reading: The Abundance Book and The Wine of Angels off to pick almost the last of the blackcurrants for a smoothie [...]
raised beds
We have 3 new ones for next season, hopefully one more to come Planning to give over the whole allotment bit at the bottom of the garden to potatoes next year, with the chives, rhubarb and some other bits (maybe leeks? nasturtiums?) for biodiversity. It’s been really noticable this year that the more food we [...]
apples
there will be pie tonight and there was indeed… served with oatly Related posts:Summer Solsticeart, food, mathsHappy Easter
broad beans
I worked very hard painting that furniture so expect to see it in every picture! Shelling the beans was somewhat labour intensive, aching arms for one bowl to put in soup… While shelling I contemplated growing runner beans instead next year… But then I put them in the leek and potato soup a couple of [...]
sunflower
Related posts:rhubarb, roses, lettuce and nettleshoneysucklethe Solstice sun rises
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preserving
What a bumper year it’s been for the currants – were having berried up green smoothies daily, there are lots in freezer which will extend the berry smoothie season and it’s looking to be a very abundant bramble year too. Last year we gathered quite a lot for the freezer as well as smoothie-ing them [...]
potatoes
Never before have we had so many of these beautiful apples of the Earth. Pull a stem and reach into the ground for tuber after tuber – the plot is full of them Weather conditions have no doubt contributed to this abundant harvest but I’ve also been a more diligent waterer on dry days. Sunshine finds [...]
a blackcurrant smoothie
Very blackcurranty and lovely, makes a big jug (about 3 and a half pints, good for 4 people, quantities very adjustable): lots of blackcurrants, about a quarter blender jugful lots of borage flowers (optional) huge bunch of parsley a handful of brazil nuts 1 banana 1 avocado 1 apple 1 litre of orange juice Blitz [...]
the tale of the strawberries
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 [...]
