Tag Archives: memories

days of yore

By Lucy | Published January 19, 2011

A home ed trip as in bygone days Much hilarity ensued throughout… 2007 trip comparison links: The Findhorn Foundation and Pluscarden Abbey Related posts:home ed group tripreading, paintingcake and wood

Posted in art, friends, home educational bits, trips | Also tagged education, friendship, Scotland 6 Comments

amid the snow

By Lucy | Published December 17, 2010

Whoops, no blog posts for a bit! We were blocked in for two weeks, then ran madly around buying food and Christmas. I do prefer Yule, no purchase required In the midst of this we had a sad happening with the loss of Fantine. She was 20 years old and very frail but we all [...]

Posted in art, friends, games, garden, music | Also tagged friendship, play, snow 8 Comments

Vegetarian Christmas

By Lucy | Published November 16, 2010

An older book, now out of print, but I don’t think anything has come along to best it as a veggie festive title (do comment if you know otherwise!). I got the hardback out of the library something like 18/19 years ago and it impacted me. The gorgeousness of Christmas food, the hints on preparing [...]

Posted in books, food | Also tagged cooking, festive, vegan, vegetarian, veggies, wildlife 3 Comments

The Artist’s Way and a giveaway!

By Lucy | Published August 10, 2010

Reading The Artist’s Way just now (after hearing about it on making it up), faithfully doing my morning pages, 3 pages of early morning scrawlings, uncensored beautiful brain drain, and recovering my creativity, dealing with my blurts of negativity and realising where they originated… very powerful stuff :) I have experienced these sorts of connections through art [...]

Posted in art, books, odd | Also tagged dance, education, play 27 Comments

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 [...]

Posted in food, garden, odd | Also tagged frogs, grow, sweet 5 Comments

sea, river, Balvenie, vikings

By Lucy | Published July 2, 2010

Had a wonderful afternoon with friends, sea swimming and boogie boarding – walking over dunes beforehand. Then another busy day yesterday at a home ed group viking re-enactment workshop (associated with the Dufftown Heritage Festival this weekend), also visiting Balvenie Castle and Banff Museum (which is exactly as I remember it as a child, slightly disturbing). Saw some [...]

Posted in ancient stones, beach, friends, home educational bits, trips, vegan products | Also tagged castle, education, friendship, history, Scotland, swimming 4 Comments

mellow

By Lucy | Published June 6, 2010

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 [...]

Posted in books, food, garden, music, odd, resources, reviews | Also tagged education, grow, herbs, history, reading 7 Comments

wordle

By Lucy | Published May 5, 2010

(click for bigger one) This is the sort of thing that’s get played with when procrastination is occurring! Transferring the frugal mailing list to a different server, a long and tedious job… (should you wish to sign up for the said frugal updates feel free to do so ). However it is interesting to see [...]

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polytunnels and taps

By Lucy | Published March 6, 2010

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 [...]