Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
After having a great days windsurfing on Saturday I thought it only fair that I resist the temptation to go windsurfing again on Sunday, (despite the fact that the Borth and Ynyslas Weather Station showed a max gust speed of 49.7 knots), and have a family day out instead… Well, it was Mother’s Day. So,...
Just a quick congratulations for ttTom (Tom and Shirl) for getting the first to find on all 5 new geocaches that I hid at the weekend in the Watery Wales 2 series. Also, a congratulations to Gwyddno who followed them around closely and got the second to find on all 5 caches. It sounds as...
You won’t believe this… Anna did the washing today at the launderette and whilst she was doing one load she noticed my iPod earphones spinning around in the washing machine… Needless to say we were expecting them to be ruined 40 minutes on a high temp wash and a rinse cycle was bound to have...
You may think from the title of this post that it will be all about Morgan and how he is 2 already and growing up faster than you could imagine…. Well, it isn’t, it is all about me, me, me!! I’m sure it wasn’t that long ago that I was a student and not long...
Following on from my post last week about cold weather windsurfing, here’s another ‘cool’ video clip of someone windsurfing in Antarctica!
Following a nice day of activities hiding geocaches and then windsurfing on Sunday, Anna, Morgan and I all headed off to the Wildfowler in Tre-r-Ddol for dinner. Two meals for the price of one and it was really nice. Best of all my pint of blackcurrant and lemonade (I was driving!) on cost 35p!!
Its been a few weeks since I’ve done any geocaching, but Sunday was a good day in the Welsh hills followed by a quick windsurf session on the beach at Borth. Steve and I headed off in the morning to hide some new geocaches. We drove up the mountain road from Tal-y-Bont towards Nant-y-Moch (and...
Many people think I’m a little mad going windsurfing here in Wales in the depths of winter…. Well, think again…. This video shows that windsurfing in Wales in the winter is fairly tame!
We decided to have a slobby dinner last night of Pizza, baked potato and salad. The usual instructions for oven baked frozen pizza are as follows: Preheat Oven Remove all packaging Place directly on top shelf of oven and bake Unfotunately that isn’t the case with the pizzas we had last night which say that...
I tried to take some photos of the Lunar Eclipse on Saturday evening, but didn’t have a tripod which made things a little difficult. It was also one of those occasions where an old fashioned film camera would probably have been better. It was OK as the moon was beginning to be eclipsed, but once...
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