A Simple Life of Luxury

Believe it or not, our sleepy seaside town of Borth is home to a music festival. Complete with 6 stages, 60 bands and up to 3000 people. If that many people do attend, than could more than triple the population for a day or two.

The Square Festival as its known is on the 26th and 27th July at Ynys Fergi Farm in the middle of Borth. As well as the  stages with a wide range of music there will of course be plenty of arts and crafts stalls, food stalls and plenty of cider too!

I’ve taken a look at the line-up and have to admit that I haven’t heard of a single one of the bands. I’m not sure if thats a reflection on the line-up itself or (as is more likely) a reflection of the fact that I’m not as young and ‘with it’ as I used to be. The big names are ‘Pendulum’ on the 26th and ‘Alabama 3′ on the 27th.

I won’t go into the hows and whys, but I’ve just got myself a couple of free tickets.

Lets hope it all runs smoothly, everyone has a good time and the locals aren’t disturbed too much.

I keep saying that it is all too easy to take what you have around you for granted and not make the most of it. So, to make sure didn’t fall into this trap we joined the holiday-makers and had a nice day out at the beach last weekend.

Actually we beat them to it really as Morgan and I loaded the car up with all the tourist trappings; beach towels, beach shelter, swimming stuff, wetsuits etc etc first thing in the morning. Slapped on the suntan lotion and headed off in the car. Less than a minute later we were on the beach at Ynyslas which was virtually deserted. We could have walked of course but we also had our canoe with use which is a little heavy to carry.

I started setting up our little beach campsite for the day when along came one of the wardens from the nature Reserve. We got chatting as they were organising some kids activities at the visitor centre all about the weather. I therefore told her about my weather station and offered to arrange a data feed to the visitor centre if they wanted one.

Once the beach shelter was set up and Morgan and I were in our wetsuits, I pumped up our inflatable canoe and we headed off on an adventure on the waters of the Dyfi Estuary. The tide was low so we explored the channels and went up the River Leri a little bit. We then stopped for a picnic on one of the sandbanks before slowly making our way back to the car. The water was really calm which was good as our first attempt in the canoe with Morgan was a little rough, but he enjoyed it this time.

Back at the beach and Anna was there so we played in the sand for a bit before going across to look at the displays in the visitor centre and getting an ice-cream. By now the place was pretty busy with holiday-makers so we headed back home and spent the rest of the day in the garden.

It was however nice to spend the day on the beach and make the most of the things on our doorstep.