A Simple Life of Luxury

Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means

Author: Alan Cole

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Fitness / Lifestyle / Technology

Making a Habit of it.

Exercise is a funny thing. Some of us hate it, some of us can’t get enough of it. It’ll soon be the New Year and people all over will be making plans to do more of it. If your New Year’s Resolution is to get fit, what’s the secret and how do you stick with...

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Nature

No Moths

Its been a while since I put the Moth Trap out. The weather hasn’t been ideal and I haven’t had much time or I’ve been away, but I put it out on Tuesday night just to see if anything would come along. I thought we might get one or two, but the sub-zero temperatures didn’t...

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Technology

Carbonite – Offsite Backup Review

One of the compelling reasons for upgrading my computer was that my old one didn’t work with any of the offsite ‘cloud’ backup systems out there. Onsite Backups I’m a bit paranoid and go over the top with backups, but you can never be too careful. I have several onsite backups on external firewire drives...

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Family

An Icy Weekend

We’ve just got back from the pre-Christmas Cole family gathering in Bristol. As sual we all got together and did a few things over the weekend. This time it all seemed a little icy. Ice Hockey On Saturday my Dad and I took Morgan, Kia and Shaun to the Bristol Ice Rink to watch the...

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Fitness / MTB

Last Weeks Training Schedule

With Christmas coming and lots of food, drink and relaxing planned, I thought I should at least try to be good in the run up and get some training in. I haven’t done too badly this year. As well as keeping up with the mountain biking I’ve also got a Turbo Trainer that I now...

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Technology

New iMac – Set up and Migration

I finally got around to setting up my new iMac on Wednesday. A new computer had been on the cards for a while as mine was 5-6 years old and I do use it everyday in a professional capacity as a freelance website designer. I’ve always been a Mac user, starting way back with a...

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Family / Lifestyle

It’s Beginning to Feel a Lot Like Christmas

With my birthday over, we are now allowed to start getting into the Christmas Spirit, so we made the most of it on Saturday. First we went to see Santa in his underground grotto at King Arthur’s Labyrinth. There can’t be many Santa’s Grotto’s around the country where you have to wear a hard hat...

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Family / Wales

A Winter Sunset

Morgan and I spent the afternoon in the dunes on Sunday. Yes, our noses were cold, but it was a lovely fresh, clear day and of course very quiet. We were treated to a nice sunset too.

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Family / Lifestyle

Eureka!

We had to go to Leeds on Thursday, so whilst Anna was off doing her thing Morgan and I wandered around the City. Morgan was quite excited at the prospect of going to a big city and was pretty impressed by all the big buildings, the lights and all the people and shops. We spent...