Author: Alan Cole

The Estuary Crossing from Aberdovey 1

Estuary Adventure

I had a fun little estuary adventure on Wednesday. My day started with an early morning swim from South beach in Aberystwyth out around Castle Point and back onto North beach with Graham, Helen, Richard, Mike and Victoria. I do think I picked the wrong activity though because as I left the house to drive...

Another Super 1

Busy Bees

With summer in full swing, the bees are getting busy. I had a phone call the other day about a swarm in Borth so went off to collect it. Catching swarms is one of my favourite things in beekeeping. Not only do I get free bees, but it’s always quite exciting and the onlookers have...

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Heatwave!

It may only have been 1 day so far with temperatures in the high 20’s but that constitutes a heatwave in these parts! 27.4ºC was the maximum recorded here yesterday, but you only had to go about a mile inland and it was up into the low 30’s. A perfect day for some pressure washing...

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Llywngwril Troll

Look what I spotted on my ride on Sunday morning – yep, it’s a giant knitted troll climbing up from under the bridge in Llwyngwril!

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SUP Surfing with the Garmin Fenix 3

I managed to squeeze in a nice little SUP Surfing session on Monday and decided to try out the Surf Tracker app on my Garmin Fenix 3. The conditions were nice, a gentle SW breeze and 2 foot surf rolling into the beach at Ynyslas. The sun was shining, the temperature was almost 20ºC but...

Working in the Shed 1

A DIY Weekend at Home

It seems to be a rare occasion that we get a whole weekend at home these days, especially one with no real events to attend. But that is exactly what we’ve just had. This was partly due to the fact that Morgan was ill so couldn’t go to a special orchestra practise that he was supposed...

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Mellow Yellow

The garden seem to be going from its ‘Purple Passion‘ stage into a ‘Mellow Yellow’ mood instead,.

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Creating a Workshop

Morgan was off school sick on Wednesday so I couldn’t leave the house so instead I ended up spending most of the day in the shed finding places to put my tools and creating storage contraptions to hold them all. There’s still lots to do, but it’s beginning to look like quite a usable space. I...

Me Swimming 0

Morning Sea Swim

I usually have a 7:15am morning swim in the pool at the University before work on a Thursday. But being unable to run means that I have no races planned, no real need to ‘train’ and therefore less motivation than usual, so when I saw that Larry was organising a 6:30am sea swim in Aberystwyth...

Poorly Boy 1

Poorly Boy

Morgan on a day off sick from school… Only 5 minutes before he told me he was feeling better.