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July 08 2010
if the mountain defeats us…
Mither Tap against sun
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!
at the bottom of the Mither Tap path
top of first climb up steep Mither tap path
down the Donview way
caterpillar
back up on top and heading down Rowan
These new signs help to avoid confusion, there are even paths at the bottom linking different carparks so you can go down different ways without reclimbing if you wish 
no such plan for us - back up Rowan
This was the toughest climb being our third, even though it is the easiest path and most gentle slope.
resting on way up - some of the shoes did not make it (5 years old, ethical wares, much walking done)
reaching top 3rd time
steep final descent
down down down
treat picnic at bottom
rose cupcakes
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July 02 2010
sea, river, Balvenie, vikings
dunes
Had a wonderful afternoon with friends, sea swimming and boogie boarding – walking over dunes beforehand. Then another busy day yesterday at a home ed group viking re-enactment workshop (associated with the Dufftown Heritage Festival this weekend), also visiting Balvenie Castle and Banff Museum (which is exactly as I remember it as a child, slightly disturbing).
had picnic by the river Deveron in Huntly
Balvenie Castle door
looking down to hall
window
club with spikes
bits and pieces
battling vikings
Saw some of the lovely t-shirts made by one of the families in the group beautifully modelled – they have home ed, breast feeding, Pictish and Celtic designs (Charlotte has a Celtic one).
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June 17 2010
Tap o’ Noth and Dunnydeer
OS thing at top, Pictish fort walls visible
Practice triple climb of other hills! Tap O’ Noth first, then Dunnydeer twice.
a tough climb this one
up we go
then on Dunnydeer, Tap o' Noth in misty distance
down the other side of dunnydeer, before going back up and home
beautiful hill
June 09 2010
Peregrines
Peregrine Wildwatch Centre
Wonderful place this, great home ed group event there
quarry face where the nest is
red squirrel
female peregrine in tree - she was making a lot of noise!
fast
building a hide
impression of a caterpillar called Bob
best friends
a few more pics in our home education set on flickr
and a short video of the squirrels below, much topical talking in background…
June 01 2010
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I might 
There’s been lots of sunny days, there’s been lots of bike rides in various directions.
I love my purple bike - my first ever bicycle
I rather like these old railway bridges too
We were on The Buchan Way here, an old railway line.
found lots of apples trees on the line
the scent was astounding
bridges are good resting points on the normal road too
back home in the garden:
there will be a pop soon!
February 09 2010
lovely herbs and the unintended
Cat has a wonderful new website: The Tasty Herbalist - go see
Strange day today where a slight disaster led to us doing totally unintended things such as visiting the Wallace and Gromit exhibition at Satrosphere. It was very good, also being about other animation and techniques etc.
November 29 2009
mushrooms and the moon
Creamy Mushroom Puff (from Yule):
Went to a Moonwatch event at Archaeolink last night, very good talk and the cosmic dome was good as usual though sadly it was too cloudy for us to see anything through the huge telescopes they had set up… so here’s something blurry I prepared earlier in the week 
I promised no chocolate in this post in comments… it’s not easy, bear with me… deep breaths…
instead I’ll give you Curious Minds for fantastic educational toys, books, kits etc. Weve used them a lot over the years and another interesting place for gifts I spotted this week is the Eden Project shop
November 14 2009
WW2, purple soup and festive chocs
Another Historic Scotland educational event with the home ed group yesterday - very entertaining, I learned things
Photographer form P&J there by steps, should be something in Monday.
This is what happens when you add red cabbage to miso noodle soup (recipe here, scroll down a bit, there’s also tofu in pictured Disney cartoon soup):
onto the festive choc, there’s some really nice things around this year, a couple below:
Divine Christmas Dark Chocolate Foiled Balls
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