Posted in Food & Drink, Vegan, Vegan Cooking, Vegetarian, tagged halloween, samhain on 31 October, 2007 | 5 Comments »
For our Samhain dinner, we had some curried soup with sweet potato, potato & carrots followed by yummy ice-cream biscuits….
Curried Spook-tato soup - Serves 2-4 zombies
Ingredients:
1 onion - peeled & diced
400g sweet potato - peeled & chopped
300g carrots - peeled & chopped
200g potato - peeled & chopped
1 litre vegetable stock
2 teaspoons [...]
Posted in Ireland, WWWednesday, memes, tagged halloween, samhain on 31 October, 2007 | No Comments »
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Hallowe’en themed today!
4) You Call It Hallowe’en… We Call It Samhain - A pagan’s view on the history of Hallowe’en.
3) Samhain - Wikipedia’s Samhain article will have you wandering off in lots of exciting directions as you get lost among their extensive links.
2) Samhain at Tara - Details of various groups [...]
Posted in Photos, Wordless Wednesday, memes on 30 October, 2007 | 21 Comments »
Taken by Mr Halfpintpixie on an early morning walk by the Corrib River in Galway last week.
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Posted in Food & Drink, Vegan, Vegan Cooking, Vegetarian, tagged baking, cookies on 30 October, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Littlepixie had a Hallowe’en party to go to today, so I, wonderful mammy that I am, baked cookies last night.
The absolute favourite cookies of the Halfpintpixie household are Dreena Burton’s Homestyle Choc-chip cookies from Vive le Vegan. The recipe is on everydaydish.tv, and you can even watch a YouTube video of Dreena baking them [...]
Posted in General Musings, memes on 28 October, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Amy over at Crunchy Domestic Goddess was recently interviewed and in turn offered to interview any other willing bloggers. So here are the questions posed by the lovely Amy to my good self along with my answers… I may have rambled somewhat, littlepixie is asleep in my arms and I’m too snuggly to move, so [...]
Posted in Awards, General Musings on 28 October, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I got my very first blog award today from the lovely Irene at The Green Greek.
We have a long-standing tradition here of keeping all Christmas celebrations until after Hallowe’en, this award is Christmas-related so you’ll see it next week! If you’re curious, you can have a peek at it on The Green Greek.
Thanks Irene
Posted in General Musings, Star Trek, tagged halloween, pumpkin, samhain on 28 October, 2007 | No Comments »
The clocks have gone back, it’s getting frosty and cold outside, it’s nearly Hallowe’en!
Here’s my virtual Star Trek pumpkin (carved at Theoworlds.com), I did mention I was a Trekkie didn’t I
Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Lactivism, Mothering, Parenting on 26 October, 2007 | 14 Comments »
And no, it’s not a problem!
Now that littlepixie is walking and well able to go, people often ask if she’s still breastfeeding and when I’m planning to wean her.
The simple answer is “Mind your own business” but I just have this habit of trying to educate people, so on goes my little lactivist hat and [...]
Posted in Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Ireland, Mothering, Parenting, Pregnancy, WWWednesday, memes on 24 October, 2007 | No Comments »
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Looking for some help with breastfeeding in Ireland?
5) A.L.C.I. - The Association of Lactation Consultants in Ireland’s website. Not much information here, but they could be useful if you were looking for a local certified LC.
4) Cuidiu - The Irish Childbirth Trust runs antenatal & breastfeeding classes. Website only contains contact [...]
Posted in Photos, Wordless Wednesday, memes on 23 October, 2007 | 24 Comments »
Adventure Boots in New Zealand 2004
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