Tag Archives: wildlife

a mouse and relaxation

By Lucy | Published May 28, 2010

We bought some Relax Kids CDs at Findhorn years ago and they have been used to great effect for relaxation and self esteem boosting ever since. They now have many new titles for children and teens and a wonderful website where you can listen to excerpts Related posts:Cat’s cakesknitted digestionlovely

Posted in books, garden, home educational bits, music, resources, reviews | 8 Comments

growth

By Lucy | Published April 15, 2010

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:puffin [...]

Posted in books, food, garden | Also tagged cooking, grow, herbs, rabbits, reading, soup, vegan 9 Comments

Loudon Wood, feet and newts

By Lucy | Published April 11, 2010

After many years of searching in vain, we finally found Loudon Wood stone circle. The length of time was contributed to by a council sign pointing into completely different, unconnected bit of wood – ignore that and use google maps instead if wanting to visit! Beautiful place. Davie put on music down by the pond as he set [...]

Posted in ancient stones, garden, woods | Also tagged history, Scotland, trees, walk 5 Comments

frogs and barre

By Lucy | Published March 19, 2010

It’s all very magical down there in the pond – just been out listening to them tonight by the light of the moon Below should be a short video of them – turn up your volume to hear their frenzied ribbuting! Apologies for the poor picture quality – they are more shy than they appear [...]

Posted in garden | Also tagged build, dance, DIY, frogs 14 Comments

Spring pics

By Lucy | Published March 17, 2010

free veg seeds from the bbc here Related posts:a day of trains, mountains and friendsstoriessunflower

Posted in food, friends, garden, only pics, resources | Also tagged cake, cooking, dance, friendship, grow, herbs, rabbits, sweet, trees 14 Comments

fox in the snow

By Lucy | Published February 20, 2010

Lots more has fallen – we are ankle deep again… just as I was taking photos this fox came and had a good look into the garden. We do see them quite often here, but not usually when holding a camera then, while eating my porridge by the window this morning I noticed I had an [...]

Posted in garden, only pics, woods | Also tagged Scotland, snow 15 Comments

swan lake

By Lucy | Published February 6, 2010

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, vegan, vegetarian 3 Comments

rabbits, cliffs, cushions and steamed chocolate pudding :)

By Lucy | Published October 9, 2009

Always together these two rabbits. They live under the rhoddies in the front garden. Gothic House on cliffs, sea must be so loud from there! There has been some sewing and knitting occurring Bracken sent us a great variation on our chocolate cake recipe, turning it into a steamed choccie pud with [...]

Posted in art, beach, food, garden, home educational bits, odd | 2 Comments

swans and electronics

By Lucy | Published August 5, 2009

Wow – the sun is intense just now though there’s a very autumnal feel in the air too. Love it. This electronics kit was dug out and inflicted on a new victim keen learner Related posts:I have a rightlearningVegetarian Christmas

Posted in beach, friends, home educational bits, trips | Also tagged science Comments Off

swimming with the fish

By Lucy | Published July 1, 2009

not in a mafia style way but a ‘lovely hot day, need to be in the sea’ type way a lovely jug of stuff from the garden, added OJ, avo, banana and hemp seeds to it there’s a large section of the woods covered in these: This morning we could tell it was going to be [...]