nestled in it's box

Open the box and it hits you: that exciting, sugary Easter Egg scent from childhood. I don’t know why chocolate should smell different when formed into an egg shape, but it does.  Dark chocolate eggs are of course gorgeous, but altogether more grown up. This is the one for children and those who don’t like high cocoa content chocolate. The moo free egg is sweet and mild and could easily be mistaken for a milk chocolate product.

in the frost and sunshine

It’s a good 100g size and the bunny, butterfly and flower packaging is a nice change from dark eggs which are usually aimed at very mature people…

of course, once opened, it didn't last long in this house

Available from Goodness Direct and larger Waitrose stores. Moo Free Chocolates have full details of all stockists on their website

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the sky

and the flapjacks

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but no dungeons deep or caverns old…

we start with a mince pie

up through the trees

onto the mountain face

Hill in question: Bennachie

mither tap obscured by mist

misty cairn

and yes, a moo free chocolate Santa made it up there… very impressive on his fat little legs *patronises chocolate fondly*

aww bless...

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 lentil soup recipe added to frugal

beautiful colours everywhere

geen leaves

and I found this exciting, £1.49 from Amazon:

moo free choc Santa

and the phenomenal apple abundance continues unabated…

apples

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creamovita and chocolate buttons - recipe for sponge on this page 

colours from the garden – a smoothie to be (added avo, banana, and OJ)

moth

check out VegaNation, a new vegan online shop! 

boy by sea

Pennan

girlish toes in the sea

salad

cauldron

sequins

Books of the moment:

Ecstatic Beings - Shazzie and Kate Magic

The Brightest Star in the Sky - Marian Keyes

Balletboyz - Michael Nunn and Billy Trevitt

Waldon and Other Writings - Henry David Thoreau

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raspberry cakes

we're tough - swimming in Baltic temperatures

lots of salad from garden over pasta and raw sauce

sauce: two tomatoes, 1 apple, 3 cloves of garlic, garden herbs of lovage, sage and mint and then some hulled hemp seeds, all blitzed up

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little egg box - mint, orange, dark and intensely dark

Beautiful raw chocolate vegan Easter box from RAWR – delicious, gorgeous packaging, we highly recommend

solid chocolate eggs

intensely dark

and because we haven’t had one for a long time, a photo of a sunsetty loch

evening walks are back - it's Spring!

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flowers

cake with blueberries and chocolate hearts

chocolate hearts

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our first graze box

The postman just bought our first graze box, which we got free, and it’s gorgeous. Very high quality snacks in there, loads to choose from on their site. There’s even a non-vegan food list so you can bin all those items if you are vegan, though I would say the majority of it is fine.  My only slight concern would be the level of packaging for such a small amount of food, but the cardboard is the type you can tear into the compost so there won’t be too much waste. The little plastic pots could also be reused – cat food? paints?

You can get a free box too by going to graze.com and using the code NCJ7BJL – it should be prefilled for you on those links. You can cancel at any time so need never have any more than your free box, should you so wish :)

seeds and napkin

was all demolished within minutes in this house...

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tiny tiny mushrooms... shown much larger than real size

It doesn’t seem long since I was looking forward to the long months of summer yet to come. They whisked by in a flurry of mountains, gardening, a broken arm, sunbathing, swimming, boogie boarding, transformations, eating home produce, preserving, cycling, walking, learning, dancing, writing, reading…

well there you are, it’s really Autumn now. Wild winds whip round the house. I look forward to long moonlit snowy walks, roaring fires, sparkly frost, roast dinners, Yule, cosy hats… but before all that there is…

Halloween chocolate

Dark Chocolate BOO!

Best Dressed Vampire Dark

Winnie the Witch!

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