The Soaplady

hopefully a humourous look at living on Lewis, making soap, and keeping cats and muscovy ducks

Archive for April, 2009

The Apprentice does soap …

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Me and FX love the Apprentice, don’t we FX …
 
Last week, the budding entrepreneurs were charged by ‘Surallan’ to design, manufacture and sell what he described, on television, as a ’natural’ body product …
 
I thought I would perhaps put my notebook on standby for this episode, and watch with interest …
 

Would it be, perhaps, a lovely [...]

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Born Today …!

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Well yesterday now, actually …
 
Just look at this little one, in all his glory -
 

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Goatsmilk, Elderflower and lavender …

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Now, this is going to be a ‘Soapy’ blog, and I feel I ought to perhaps apologise slightly for that, but there are extenuating circumstances, viz :-

The Workforce is currently on her holidays, and therefore unavailable for chatting, and
I have just cut my first block of Goatsmilk, Elderflower and Lavender soap, and absolutely need to [...]

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Pretty Lichens

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One of my favourite twice-daily walks with Mindy is along the Pentland Road - a sort of a short-cut single-track road across the moors …
 
Spring was sort of busting out all over, and we saw these beautiful lichens on the lewisian gneiss …
 
Also an excuse to see if I can get Photobucket working … Lets [...]

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