Author: Alan Cole

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Whatever Next?

We’ve had massive floods, huge waves, tidal surges, evacuations, hurricane force winds and power cuts, you’d think that would be enough now, but it seems not. Borth is now on fire!!! It looks as though the bog is burning and no ones knows why. Quite how that can even happen considering how wet it is...

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New Record Wind Gust for Borth and Ynyslas

The forecast was correct and we did indeed beat our previous record wind gust here on Wednesday. The forecasting site that I use and that has always been the most accurate for me is WindGuru and it was forecasting that the wind would start really building at 1:30pm on Wednesday and peak at a maximum at...

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Coping with the Severe Weather in Wales

Well, that was exciting. I’m sorry for the lack of updates on the severe weather warning post on Wednesday evening, but not long after my post about the troubles Anna was having getting to the school to collect Morgan the power went off so I had no way of updating things online. I had just...

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Red Severe Weather Warning

The Met office have upgraded the weather warning for Ceredigion to ‘Red’ – The highest level for severe weather warnings which means there is a risk to life and that people in the affected areas should ‘Take Action” During this afternoon a swathe of exceptionally strong winds is expected to affect western parts of Wales...

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Video Swim Analysis

I had my swim stroke recorded on video a few weeks back and have now got a copy of the footage. Now, before you say anything, my swimming isn’t too bad, but I’m also far from being ‘really’ fast. I guess I’m better than the ‘average Joe’ in the water, but even so I’m nowhere near...

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Ladybird Toenails

To herald what will hopefully soon be the onset of Spring I thought I’d go with little – well actually quite big when you think about it – Ladybirds on my toes for a while. I hope you like my ladybird toenails?

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Is that the Spring that I See?

I don’t think anyone would deny that we’ve had a fairly awful winter so far this year. It hasn’t been cold yet, but it’s just been wet, windy and miserable. There does seem to be hope on the horizon though. There’s a brief respite in the stormy weather today, the wind has gone and it isn’t raining at...

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Kathi Rolls

Another nice new recipe for us thanks to thespicery.com. This time it was courtesy of a free sample that came with my last monthly box for Kathi Rolls, also known as ‘Egg Rolls’ or ‘Frankies’. Usually when making a recipe for the first time I follow the instructions as close as possible to the letter...

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The Return of Jobs

I may be an Apple Fan Boy but I’m not referring to the return of Steve Jobs, I’m actually talking about a TrainerRoad workout called ‘Jobs’. It’s one I tried on January 23rd and came away from it annoyed as I didn’t manage to complete it. In fact I came nowhere near. The workout only consists of...

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Order in the Cutlery Drawers!

This may go down in history as the least interesting blog post ever, but I’ve just spent the morning clearing out the kitchen cutlery drawers and sorting things out so that they make more sense! I’m sure we aren’t the only ones to keep things that you just don’t need and for some reason much of...