planet vegan scotland - posts tagged 'reading'

this morning

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 07:42:20 GMT

sunflower so tall I had to hold the camera up high and click!

setting the above as my desktop (click for bigger image)

doing: 5 Tibetans

listening: Gregorian Chant (CD bought on our visit to Pluscarden Abbey a couple of years ago)

reading: The Abundance Book and The Wine of Angels

off to pick almost the last of the blackcurrants for a smoothie

white chocolate buttons

Crimbo

old aberdeen

Silmarils

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:29:46 GMT

Listening to an audiobook of The Silmarillion just now while browsing the Atlas of Middle Earth. This follows on from our epic watching of the extended versions of all three Lord of the Rings films in preparation and inspiration for our own mountain quest. Nice to be back in Middle Earth

other jewels: smoothie and brambles. Todays smoothie consisted of LOTS of kale and leaves from the overwintered cabbages which are now huge, LOTS of borage flowers, cleavers, a few black and red currants that are just starting to ripen, bananas, brazil nuts and an apple.

a contrived pic of a smoothie with bramble flowers and honeysuckle

The brambles (blackberries) are growing all through the honeysuckle and produce wonderful big juicy berries in autumn so there is no thought of ‘weeding’… the flowers are very beautiful:

bramble flowers and buds

pink

sunshine and books

linkage

in the garden

fruitful flowers and summer reading

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:36:36 GMT

pea

It’s wonderfully warm here just now. In between all the cycling, walking, climbing and meeting badgers in the woods were loving the cool of the pool and reading in the sun

Fiction being perused: Mariana, a gentle tale of reincarnation and time slipping and the latest Sophie Hannah, A Room Swept White – very impressed with this author’s progression. Non fiction-wise: The Moneyless Man, a guy who lived without money for a year (and continues to do so – see his blog), quite mind blowing, lots of info about the financial system as he was an economist and The Age of Absurdity, a great antidote to, well, total nonsense and status quo worship and it’s very funny too!

Jodie Picoult’s House Rules is also well worth a mention, though I read it a while back, as the main character has aspergers syndrome. He may have been given almost every trait going but he does come over as an authentic aspergian person and Picoult makes so many good points and references much current research, I feel it’s a valuable title to have in the mainstream.

borage

grapes

toms

red peppers, just watered

parsley, getting ready to self seed

melon

silver stick and Yule pudding

baking and mistletoe

snow…

trees for life

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:52:18 GMT

Four of us girls (Charlotte, me and Lucy and Eleanor from moonrabbits) are doing a sponsored climb to raise money for trees for life, the wonderful charity that is replanting the Caledonian Forest. We intend climbing Bennachie 3 times in one day, taking all three routes to the Mither Tap in about a months time. Trees for life is not a member of just giving or any such online fundraiser but please feel free to donate directly on link above if you wish For every £5 raised a tree will be planted.

A favourite of our kids years ago, the lorax speaks for the trees. Richard St. Barbe Baker “the man of the trees“ who inspired Trees for Life, was sometimes fondly known as the lorax

(lorax on amazon) Buy UK or Buy US

A nice tree filled place we cycled round recently, thanks to a neighbour telling us the best way to get in there:

rhododendron way into the woods

more rhoddies

a little loch

mellow

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:32:58 GMT

iris by pond, cleavers among

a very mellow listen: Deltadream - based on the ancient lost Solfeggio frequency “Ut”, a tone linked with releasing guilt and fear, the shorter track there is a free download.

mellow and cooling eat: minted noodle soup

books weve been mellowing out to in the sun: Named of the Dragon, a gentle mystery, writers, Arthurian and Tudor themes; The Other Half Lives, from Sophie Hannah, the best of her psychological thrillers I’ve read so far and Ask Mother Nature, another nature spirity book responsible for me feeling happy about all the chickweed growing in with the lettuce now

chickweed helps retain water in the soil and is a nice inclusion in salads

bridge over totally calm waters

Had a nice time with some more pilgrims to the house, this time the grandson of the man who built it. We all learned much from each other – apparently the roof used to be covered in solar panels, was the first house up here to have them… no trace of them now… hopefully one day we’ll have them again

borage buds, soon time for blue stars and berries in the smoothies

fully open

faeryland

Tue, 25 May 2010 09:49:49 GMT

the borders

highly perfumed bluebells, wild garlic in back

on the faery path

path

flowers

These cards remind me of the woods – a lovely story telling tool

story telling cards

Other faery places:

gorse blooms

pink snow is falling in the garden

CD of ROC’s lectures UK and US, there is deep wisdom within, much before it’s time as concerns the environment.

herbish

Mon, 24 May 2010 10:44:30 GMT

sage

dill

thyme

golden oregano and marjoram

self seeded borage

wild garlic in flower

and as recommended by the tasty herbalsist – a totally gorgeous tea this one, were drinking it with the fresh leaves just now :)

blackcurrant leaves drying

fruitish:

red currants and apples

apple blossom

and finally some more plantings of lettuce and salad leaves:

salad station

a favourite book being perused just now – the complete book of herbs

a spot of sun

Mon, 10 May 2010 15:18:27 GMT

Fantine and Toby - not the best of friends but they will share a sunspot

and some ballet feet pics:

in parallel

rise

must learn to pull socks up

… gardening snowed off today… much hilarity reading P.G. Wodehouse’s Laughing Gas

wood sorrel

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:48:00 GMT

wood sorrel on forest floor

beautiful plant – edible too

in a tree stump

Perfect book for this time of year if interested in wild foods and foraging: Richard Mabey’s Food for Free

growth

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:38:09 GMT

colour

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.

honey berry bush, in beside goji and blue

Made wonderful leek, potato and wild garlic soup from the recipe on Cat’s blog

pond flowers

fairy all springlike now beside the Archangel dead nettles

rabbit bones

daff

new leaves on sweet chestnut

flowering currant - is full of bees, lovely noise

new mint

cheap

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:31:31 GMT

a frugal recipe again, basic pasties :)

and bargains to be had – the book people are offering 10% off all orders until midnight tomorrow (Wed. 3rd Feb) – just enter WIN10 at checkout for offer.

among the snowdrops

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:49:51 GMT

more snow… some little bits I’ve been meaning to mention spread among the lovely signs of spring to come

Wayne Dyer’s new program: Excuses Begone! – been enjoying listening to that – he is always so motivational and uplifting.

The Bristol Dyslexia Centre has some interesting stuff on it’s site including some free educational games taken from the Nessy learning program.

Sensory Perceptual Issues in Autism and Asperger Syndrome: Different Sensory Experiences, Different Perceptual Worlds
Olga Bogdashina has written a wonderful book here – helpful in very practical ways and quite refreshingly non-patronising in it’s manner of looking at autism and the associated sensory and perceptual issues. There is evidence that these may be at the core of ASDs and what is actually physiological has been treated as purely psychological for far too long by the so called experts. A fascinating read
Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com

blog, Illich and broth

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:46:34 GMT

Have finally got the blog how I want it – a terrible tale of databases, installations of wordpress and corrupted (by me) css files ensued but I’ve now uploaded the archives (see drop down on sidebar) and cleaned up dead links too

Reading a book lent by my mum. She found it while scouring her shelves during the snow time (unable to get to a library) and thought it might actually be mine… can’t imagine why

Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society is full of wonderful radical thoughts on education, reminds me a lot of Holt and Gatto. The previous owner has hardly left a page untouched, with highlighting and notes everywhere, which somehow makes reading it more interesting, an extra dimension, what someone else finds of import. I think he went a bit too far in sometimes underlining whole pages of text, but there we are

Enjoying Scotch Broth, not the most photogenic of soups but it tastes good:

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