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Living in the North of Scotland, vegan, home educating, cake eating, 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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books of the moment
The Artists Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self - an intensely powerful and synchronistic way of clearing blocks, old psychological patterns and dysfunctions of the past. Get doing your morning pages, they're amazing!
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fabulous guide to foraging in Britain.
full version or pocket guide (both uk amazon)
amazing Russian books these: spirituality; growing; living naturally; raising children with love and respect; quite magical. Release any preconceived ideas of how life should be (or books) and create your space of love!
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A very well researched novel which, alongside Picoult's usual 'heading to a trial' plot, explores many facets of and perspectives on Asperger's Syndrome. The potential and common effects of AS on siblings is especially well documented here. As gripping and informative a book as Nineteen Minutes
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a great storehouse of food growing knowledge from Dirty Nails :)
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"Girls just wanna have... wanna have fun...", and we still are :)
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Popular Posts
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first ever blog post posted on June 7, 2005 
this morning posted on August 28, 2010 
old pictures posted on January 19, 2010 
Spring pics posted on March 17, 2010 
mellow posted on June 6, 2010
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Tag Archives: soup
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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:preservingsnow!writing
reflections and windows
The bridge did get finished: Now this may appear to be a blurry photo gone wrong – well, it is - but it is also a picture of trees reflected in chocolate so worthy of inclusion It is a montezuma’s very dark bar… Related posts:bloggage, food and snowafter a little blog break…whales woods cows
Posted in beach, food, only pics, vegan products, woods
Also tagged cooking, sweet, trees, walk
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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 [...]
Posted in blogroll, books, food, home educational bits, links, reviews
Also tagged big bad, education, reading
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Happy 2010!!!
Let it be a good one for all of us! Starting the year as we mean to go on… with yet more soup recipe Related posts:looking upcoloursFrohe Ostern
tomato and rice soup
recipe here on frugal - snow and ice continuing, rarely known it so cold! Related posts:radio ga gamaths and yew treesGlasgow and Loch Lomond
looking up
Sometimes you just need to look up to see beauty Lots of reading and gardening going on here. How to Grow Your Own Food is a fantastic book, guiding you through the year on a week by week basis – I’m hoping it will keep me on the straight and narrow with weeding and resowing [...]
candles, bread, pie, soup and dogs
been some baking and candle making… Had joiners here fitting some new doors and windows – they needed the outside lights on which makes everything look different: nice weather for sheperdess pie Nicola’s golden vegetable soup (a weightwatchers recipe): Related posts:finally getting round to a few thingsitunes U, coconut and summer readingafter a little blog break…
