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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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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: soup
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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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:a flower, nice eats and beachsushi, muffins, court and angelsremembrance
tomato and rice soup
recipe here on frugal - snow and ice continuing, rarely known it so cold! Related posts:jollyRomansit approaches… chocolate calendar time…
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:Scottish macaroonsTomato, lentil and vegetable soupInnocent Veg Pots
sea spaghetti and volleyball
Bit of everything good, this soup. Put some water on and chuck the following in: broken spaghetti or other noodles, sea spaghetti, leek, garlic, celery, kale, chives, red pepper, frozen peas near the end of cooking, miso once off the heat and cooled slightly, seasalt to taste… garnished with parsely and radish Got the sea [...]
geodes
On a bit of a soup kick just now: 110 mile an hour winds here today – lorries have blown over and roofs have blown off. Were still all intact but it’s loud and fierce. Weve been going for extremely long walks of late in the woods but giving that a miss today… tried to photograph [...]
minestrone
Another grey rainy day – were so going to appreciate sunny weather when it appears! Dan did a maths tutorial – still impressed with the 2XL program – it is so much better than the secondary maths I got at school (but then it’s not psychotic like the maths teachers I had were). Charlotte did [...]
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soups and games
Had a very industrious cleaning morning – all very boring really but nice now done. Have had a sprinkling of snow but mainly a hard frost – bin was frozen shut, maybe telling me not to be so lazy and recycle more stuff! Had a fresh and crunchy walk out of the village to the [...]
space and Waldorf
Fantastic space section from the BBC – here with current observing notes too – we had a beautiful clear night last night and had a good look at the stars – saw Venus. Did lots of maths stuff yesterday, both games and workbook things. Cooked some gorgeous pumpkin soup and this coconut cake, though I [...]
