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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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recipe of the moment
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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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Coconut oil is a youth enhancing, beautiful smelling moisturiser, a healthy cooking oil and a hair conditioner...
from amazon.co.ukor Amazon.com
books
A great little guide to Britain's wild foods
Amazon.co.uk
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.
Amazon.co.uk
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Popular Posts
About posted on January 14, 2010 
three vegan childhoods posted on May 8, 2012 
flowers, water, books and sunshine posted on May 5, 2012 
planting log, sitting, eating, stones and sea posted on May 15, 2010 
red dragon pie posted on January 9, 2012 
Happy Birthday Charlotte :) posted on December 15, 2006 
first ever blog post posted on June 7, 2005 
gourmet raw brownies and crisps posted on January 17, 2012 
piano metaphor posted on April 24, 2007 
old pictures posted on January 19, 2010
Tag Archives: mountain
Bennachie
Had a sudden terrible realisation this morning. We had not climbed a mountain or any large hill this summer. Beautiful day so off we rushed to rectify this :) A bit like childbirth, climbing. You don’t remember how hard it is until you’re doing it again (actually no comparison of course – childbirth much harder!). We got to the [...]
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Cairngorms
Had a quiet day in the castle (just love writing that!) yesterday. Actually did some more orthodox education stuff. I made up some dot to dots for Charlotte counting up in 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7s, went and did some shopping. Daniel bought ‘New Scientist’ Magazine and factoided us for the rest of the [...]
Aberdeen International Youth Festival
Had a nice day today – it was the start of The Aberdeen International Youth Festival so we went to see the opening parade. Great seeing all the different groups from around the world – Aberdeen felt quite muticultural for once! I attended the festival dance summer school when I was 14 – I remember [...]
Tap O Noth
Yesterday we climbed Tap O’Noth with some friends, quite a bit easier than Bennachie but very impressive with the big pictish hillfort at the top. The fort is the size of a football pitch and has been vetrified – there is much speculation on how this happened. There are forty such hillforts in Scotland all [...]
climb
A bit of an adventure today. We started off going to the library and getting lots of Roman books then headed off to climb to the Mither Tap of Bennachie. There was quite a good exhibition on wildlife and ecology in the centre which we made good use of. It’s been a lovely day but [...]
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