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Detox Your World: Quick and Lasting Results for a Beautiful Mind, Body and Spirit. A fabulous guide to optimal healthy living.
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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
how does your garden grow?
Wildly. Freely. Abundantly. Rather similarly to Cat‘s I see this morning! Sadly my courgettes are nowhere near as far on as Penny‘s or Cat’s (I’m hoping they’re late developers ). Some very early pics from before the sun was properly up this morning: the small toms are ones I took out of an organic tomato and just [...]
strawberries
a big bowl each Related posts:a day of trains, mountains and friendshot and sunnybig garden post
Posted in food, garden, raw
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Silmarils
Listening to an audiobook of The Silmarillion just now while browsing the Atlas of Middle Earth. This follows on from our epic watching of the extended versions of all three Lord of the Rings films in preparation and inspiration for our own mountain quest. Nice to be back in Middle Earth other jewels: smoothie and [...]
if the mountain defeats us…
but it didn’t, so we did not have to brave the mines of Moria, 3 times up and down Bennachie accomplished and quite a bit of money raised for the trees :) My legs hurt today! These new signs help to avoid confusion, there are even paths at the bottom linking different carparks so you can [...]
Posted in ancient stones, food, friends, trips, vegan products, woods
Also tagged friendship, mountain, Scotland, trees, views, walk, wildlife
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rhubarb, tweets and elderflowers
We have a veritable forest of rhubarb so into jam some of it went yesterday! recipe over on frugal where there is also a twitter competition detailed on the front page to win my copy of The Moneyless Man (who is vegan by the way, don’t think I mentioned that before) Gathered some elderflowers in the wood [...]
green soup and juice, raw chocolate pud
recipe up here been drinking wheatgrass juice with friends Raw chocolate pudding teamed up with Swedish Glace (booja booja stuff in a tub is raw if you prefer). Pudding was made thus: grind up some raw chocolate nibs (could use cocoa though of course not raw) then blend with a large avocado and 2 ripe bananas with a squirt [...]
fruitful flowers and summer reading
It’s wonderfully warm here just now. In between all the cycling, walking, climbing and meeting badgers in the woods were loving the cool of the pool and reading in the sun Fiction being perused: Mariana, a gentle tale of reincarnation and time slipping and the latest Sophie Hannah, A Room Swept White – very impressed [...]
mellow
a very mellow listen: Deltadream - based on the ancient lost Solfeggio frequency “Ut”, a tone linked with releasing guilt and fear, the shorter track there is a free download. mellow and cooling eat: minted noodle soup books weve been mellowing out to in the sun: Named of the Dragon, a gentle mystery, writers, Arthurian and Tudor [...]
coastal pics and pink meadow
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faeryland
These cards remind me of the woods – a lovely story telling tool Other faery places: CD of ROC’s lectures UK and US, there is deep wisdom within, much before it’s time as concerns the environment. Related posts:snow and treestriffidsrainbow


