Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Alan, Anna & Morgan live in West Wales and attempt to make the most out of life. Alan is a freelance website designer, Sports & Exercise Science Lab Technician and full time Dad & husband. Anna works at Aberystwyth University and is a full time Mum & wife.
So, Alan had signed up to do a Tough Mudder with one of my friends Rebecca. There was quite a lot of information out there on what to expect for the competitors but not much for the spectators so I wasn’t sure what it would be like. I am used to watching/supporting at triathlons and...
Read more »It’s Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) awareness week so this seems like a good point to post here about what has been going on with me as well as raising awareness about the disease. I started showing symptoms about a year ago. It started with pain in my feet in the mornings and fairly quickly spread to...
Read more »What a day! I spent most of Saturday at the Brass Extravaganza in Aberystwyth. This has been a few months in planning and a lot of hard work behind the scenes but the day was finally here and fingers crossed…touch wood…everything would run smoothly. Youth Competition The Brass Extravaganza started off with a Youth Solo and...
Read more »This is Parkin. He’s not our cat but he has been hanging around our house for quite a while. He’s always very timid and just looks like he would like a decent meal so we started feeding him alongside Robbie (our cat) whenever he turned up. Recently we hadn’t seen him for a while and...
Read more »For the first time in about 11 years I had a weekend to myself. I’m not sure how it happened but Alan and Morgan were off to PGL with the scouts and I was staying at home. I don’t think Alan and Morgan could quite believe it either and seemed desperate to know what I...
Read more »It was Remembrance Sunday last weekend and as usual we were all supposed to be in lots of places with different groups. To try and fit everything in Alan got up early and went for his usual cycle and swim, although the weather was terrible and I think he got wetter on the ride than...
Read more »We’ve had a slow cooker for years and I have to admit it is lovely to head out for the day (whether that is off for a walk in the hills with Alan and Morgan or just a day at work) and have tea all ready to go when you walk through the door.
I have only ever made stew in our slow cooker. I have played with the variety of stew and we’ve had some lovely beef, pork and leek, beef and ale and chicken stews over the years…
Read more »Morgan’s school had a competition to design a new logo for ‘Capten Comins’ to remind everyone in the school to turn off the lights when not in use. It was organised by the school Eco-Council and everyone in the school had the chance to enter. Morgan came up with a good idea of using the...
Read more »We had a nice day at home for Morgan’s birthday – a bit more chilled than a typical day with Alan but we had fun all the same. It started with lego building then we were off to feed the chickens. Morgan was very impressed to find an egg and even more impressed that we...
Read more »Morgan has recently started to learn the cornet and school and it he says he is really enjoying it. He has been practising every day and we are looking forward to him learning a few more notes so he can play some tunes. At the moment he can play C and D very nicely! At...
Read more »While chopping up our first batch of baby courgettes from the garden for tea last night I came across this one with mini three legs of man inside. They are definitely from Wales but it is nice to see and bit of the Isle of Man cropping up when you don’t expect it!
Read more »It’s taken a while to get going this year but suddenly the strawberries, black currants, red currants and raspberries are ready to pick and eat. We’ve also picked our first baby courgettes and purple sprouting broccoli. It’s lovely to have food for tea that we have grown ourselves.
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