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Detox Your World: Quick and Lasting Results for a Beautiful Mind, Body and Spirit. A fabulous guide to optimal healthy living.
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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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These creamy white buttons make the most amazing white hot chocolate! See Cat's recipe on The Modern Housewife blog.
Tag Archives: wildlife
heron in the trees
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kissing is still in fashion
No matter how cold it gets there’s always one somewhere Seasonal bits: Frugal Christmas and Vegan Yule have been updated and weeded free of dead links and outdated information. Lebkuchen from Lidl now contain butter Drawing attention to Rose Elliot’s Vegetarian Christmas just now (see last years blog review of it) as it is currently [...]
whooper swans
They fly over the garden every evening just now, about forty of them. By the time I’ve grabbed my camera they are always nearly gone though… Related posts:stepsbits and bobs of educationthe Solstice sun rises
Posted in garden
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summer
creamovita and chocolate buttons - recipe for sponge on this page colours from the garden – a smoothie to be (added avo, banana, and OJ) check out VegaNation, a new vegan online shop! 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 [...]
Posted in books, food, friends, links, odd, raw, smoothies, vegan products
Also tagged cake, cooking, friendship, reading, Scotland, sweet, vegan, vegetarian
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a balmy -5 today
No post all week. Car buried in pile of snow, track too deep for it anyway. Here’s hoping a handsome man can get through with a truckfull of provisions tonight Related posts:a casserole and a cookbookjoyful swimming and piesheep, a candle, a cake and the sky
Vegetarian Christmas
An older book, now out of print, but I don’t think anything has come along to best it as a veggie festive title (do comment if you know otherwise!). I got the hardback out of the library something like 18/19 years ago and it impacted me. The gorgeousness of Christmas food, the hints on preparing [...]
sea
Related posts:rabbits, cliffs, cushions and steamed chocolate pu…climbstripey sky and flapjacks
images from a cycling afternoon
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if the mountain defeats us…
but it didn’t, so we did not have to brave the mines of Moria, 3 times up and down Bennachie accomplished and quite a bit of money raised for the trees :) My legs hurt today! These new signs help to avoid confusion, there are even paths at the bottom linking different carparks so you can [...]
Posted in ancient stones, food, friends, trips, vegan products, woods
Also tagged friendship, grow, mountain, Scotland, trees, views, walk
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Peregrines
Wonderful place this, great home ed group event there a few more pics in our home education set on flickr and a short video of the squirrels below, much topical talking in background… Related posts:knitted digestiongold paintchocolate and castle


