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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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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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gourmet raw brownies and crisps posted on January 17, 2012
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new designs in shop
Great program photoshop I’ve created a few new designs for the spreadshirt shop, some based on flowers from the garden, some ballet, old pictures and still the original vegan and home ed categories too. There is an offer on from today, 12th July to 30th July (2010 for future clarification) – if you buy £40 worth [...]
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 [...]
planting log, sitting, eating, stones and sea
I have just planted over 300 little leeks, lots of kale and purple sprouting brocolli seedlings, carrots, radish, garlic, basil, sunflowers and flat leaf parsley as an alternative to the madly (but wonderfully) continually self seeding curly The thinking of the planting this year is to grow things that both do well up here and that [...]
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:silver [...]
walnut cake and sheep
Vegan Easter has been updated Walnut cake with a tablespoon of Nocaf added to the mix. It is not coffeeish as had intended but is very nice: 1st of March tomorrow, so will it get more springlike? Related posts:photosrabbits, cliffs, cushions and steamed chocolate pu…Happy Easter
swan lake
There were swans on the loch yesterday Had a lovely day with friends morphing into a very balletic afternoon which was great fun. It’s been wonderful rediscovering ballet being for enjoyment, rather than an eternal striving (not to mention starving) for perfection. Looked out the old class music etc. I have but it’s all on cassettes – [...]
Posted in books, films, friends, reviews, woods
Also tagged big bad, dance, friendship, vegetarian, wildlife
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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 [...]
Posted in books, food, friends, garden, odd, reviews, vegan products
Also tagged cooking, friendship, herbs, memories, reading, time, vegetarian
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bloggage, food and snow
First off the Home Baked blog is having a monthly baking challenge – read about it here and see January’s theme here. I’m the guest judge this month – v exciting Then we have a new blog on the sidebar – Vegan Kid - lots of gorgeous looking food there too… Then, thanks to the Skint [...]
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:holidaytimebirthdayseeds and scones
tomato and rice soup
recipe here on frugal - snow and ice continuing, rarely known it so cold! Related posts:cold frame and pumpkinsfrostyVegetarian Christmas

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