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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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Popular Posts
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Solstice Chocolate Refrigerator Christmas Cake posted on December 22, 2011 
sunshine, sky and yellow leaves posted on October 28, 2011 
Scottish macaroons posted on January 24, 2010 
graze posted on October 13, 2010 
birthday posted on December 16, 2007 
piano metaphor posted on April 24, 2007
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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: reading
herbish
and as recommended by the tasty herbalsist – a totally gorgeous tea this one, were drinking it with the fresh leaves just now :) fruitish: and finally some more plantings of lettuce and salad leaves: a favourite book being perused just now – the complete book of herbs Related posts:maths trekpicnicssnowed in
a spot of sun
and some ballet feet pics: … gardening snowed off today… much hilarity reading P.G. Wodehouse’s Laughing Gas See our ballet designs on t-shirts, mugs, hats and aprons! Related posts:friends and mince piessun catchersfrogs and barre
wood sorrel
beautiful plant – edible too Perfect book for this time of year if interested in wild foods and foraging: Richard Mabey’s Food for Free Related posts:book & chocfox in the snowthe Solstice sun rises
growth
Planted my berry bushes from Suttons yesterday, well protected there from the rabbits Potatoes are going in today… Dipping into the Anastasia series again to get truly inspired again with growing, so different from anything else I’ve ever read. Made wonderful leek, potato and wild garlic soup from the recipe on Cat’s blog Related posts:oh [...]
cheap
a frugal recipe again, basic pasties :) and bargains to be had – the book people are offering 10% off all orders until midnight tomorrow (Wed. 3rd Feb) – just enter WIN10 at checkout for offer. Related posts:art, food, mathsSlains Castle and Draculaa little bit summery
among the snowdrops
more snow… some little bits I’ve been meaning to mention spread among the lovely signs of spring to come Wayne Dyer’s new program: Excuses Begone! – been enjoying listening to that – he is always so motivational and uplifting. The Bristol Dyslexia Centre has some interesting stuff on it’s site including some free educational games taken from the [...]
blog, Illich and broth
Have finally got the blog how I want it – a terrible tale of databases, installations of wordpress and corrupted (by me) css files ensued but I’ve now uploaded the archives (see drop down on sidebar) and cleaned up dead links too Reading a book lent by my mum. She found it while scouring her shelves during the snow [...]
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a casserole and a cookbook
We will have been married 20 years this year… which causes me to reflect how far weve come, how much the world has changed in that time and to note the two items above. They were given to us as a wedding present by friends who I used to babysit for and here they are still [...]
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Also tagged cooking, friendship, herbs, memories, time, vegan, vegetarian
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book & choc
Reading the new Adrian Mole – The Prostrate Years and have discovered yet another vegan chocolate advent calendar. they didn’t exist at all when we were first vegan, now there’s all this choice!! See them all in Yule but here’s hotel chocolat’s one: Related posts:curry noodleschocolate and castlefruitful flowers and summer reading
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reading matter
Thoroughly enjoyed a readathon of The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (Davie aquired one of only 2 copies left in Asda, £5) – very exciting, lots of thought provoking factoids Went rather well, surprisingly so really, with Doreen Virtue’s Goddesses and Angels, which I’ve just finished. Always loved the Horrible Histories books, read a rather good interview with [...]
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