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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
sheep, a candle, a cake and the sky posted on September 5, 2010 
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About posted on January 14, 2010 
the melon posted on August 30, 2010 
mellow posted on June 6, 2010 
Scottish macaroons posted on January 24, 2010 
first ever blog post posted on June 7, 2005 
cake posted on August 29, 2010 
cup of tea, anyone? posted on July 17, 2010 
a flower, nice eats and beach posted on July 20, 2009
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Tag Archives: vegetarian
cup of tea, anyone?
I was most intrigued during the week to be offered the above product samples for review on the site. It didn’t seem likely that a major company was producing something so accommodating to vegans and non-dairy drinkers. I googled to make sure it was true… and it was: Tetley for Soya I don’t usually drink [...]
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 – [...]
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, reading, time, vegan
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Gorgeous Graduation
Hopped off the train in Glasgow and trotted along to Stereo where I failed to take photos of much of the food and it was all so wonderful! The spicy potato soup is below but we also had a mezze platter, big breakfast, haggis fritters, chilli nachos, ice cream and sticky toffee pudding: Over at Cat’s: Fabulous [...]
Burns Night
O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e’er untie the filial band That knits me thy rugged strand! (The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Sir Walter Scott) After dancing [...]
Posted in food, home educational bits, music, vegan products
Also tagged cooking, festive, history, reading, Scotland, vegan
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Christmas without Cruelty Edinburgh 2005
Drove down to Edinburgh for the Cruelty-Free Christmas Fair yesterday. A really good day. It was held in the Freemasons Hall which was a fascinating and impressive building in itself. We were “helping” Catriona with her vegan cookery demonstrations which meant we saw a bit more of the building down underneath, the kitchens etc. Charlotte [...]
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a little birdhouse in my soul
Our little birdhouse in a pear tree (painted by Charlotte) that we can see from the sitting room window – you can just detect a coal tit on there. The birds go mad for black sunflower seeds – Daniel filled it up yesterday afternoon and they are just about finished. We bought the birdhouse from [...]
