Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
The Annual Borth and Ynyslas fireworks party went well last night. Despite the terrible weather forecast, loads of people turned up to Dave and Sarah’s, most with plates of food and a firework. We also took a pumpkin and were supposed to take some toilet roll but forgot! The bonfire was soon lit and although...
I haven’t done much geocaching lately, but need to get out and maintain some of my geocaches that need attention… Hopefully this weekend if time permits. Meanwhile, one of my geocoins has been continuing on its mission to visit as many UK counties as possible and notched up a new one, West Sussex, yesterday. A...
My new lens arrived at the weekend, a couple of days after buying it which, considering the postal strikes was pretty good going. It’s a Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens which I’m hoping will serve as a portrait and general photography lens as well as a macro. On my cropped sensor camera it...
As a freelance website designer, I run various sites of my own, most of which have some form of advertising on them to help cover the running costs. One or two of them do provide some income, all of which helps us with our ‘Simple Life of Luxury’ and making the most of modest means...
Amazingly it is already that time of year when we need to start thinking about Christmas! We’re on the ball as we have already ordered our Christmas Turkey. Last year we had a four-bird roast for our Christmas dinner, but Anna was ill so didn’t really get chance to enjoy it. We have therefore decided...
October 18th 2009 My Dad was here so we put the trap out to see what we could get. *= New to our trap. 1 Dark Sword Grass * 1 Angle Shades 1 Setaceous Hebrew Character 5 Red-line Quaker 1 Large Wainscot 1 Black Rustic 5 Lunar Underwing 1 Feathered Ranunculus October 21st 2009 A...
The clocks have gone back, the evenings are darker and it feels as though Winter is properly on its way. A depressing time for many, but I really like it. It isn’t very cold at the moment but there’s nothing nicer than snuggling up indoors in front of the fire whilst it’s cold and miserable...
It was the second of the two annual windsurf demo days at Aberdovey this weekend. Basically, Boardwise and a load of windsurf manufacturers turn up with lots of new boards and sails for us to try. There are usuaully a few celebrities from the windsurf world there too. Despite the fact that it is only...
As the title of this website states, we are supposed to be living a Simple Life of Luxury here in West Wales. I think we are achieving that. To add to the luxury we are currently fitting a new en-suite shower room to the house. We’ve been planning to do this since building the house...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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Traws Eryri Day 2 – Dolgellau to Trawsfynydd
Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
