A Simple Life of Luxury

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

Author: Alan Cole

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Lifestyle / Play

A hard day at the office

I just love living here in West Wales and working from home. After seeing Anna and Morgan off to work / nursery I set to work at my computer, sitting in my office with my slippers on and a cup of coffee. I actually got quite a bit done this morning but as the wiond...

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A day of Geocaching

We had a good day today. Morgan got up earlier than usual, so despite the clock going back we didn’t get any extra time in bed so were up and ready to go quite early. Perfect really as it meant we could attempt some of the new geocahces that have been hidden in and around...

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The end of Summertime

It’s that time of year again, the clock go back to GMT, the end of BST, the nights are darker, the mornings temporarily lighter and those that suffer from Seasonal Affective Diorder (SAD) start getting grumpy. I actually quite like this time of year, once again things are all changing and those long evenings snuggled...

Rusty old Transit van 1

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Rusty old Transit van

Well, it happens to the best of us, eventually we get old, crumble and die, and Transit vans are no exception. This is espeically true when they live on the beach and are full of wet, salty windsurfing gear. My Transit van has been rusting away quite rapidly for a while now and although the...

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Bonsai Trees

I’ve always been a bit of a fan of bonsai trees and used to have a really nice indoor bonsai tree until Robbie, our cat, ate it! I’ve now got a new one though as a present for my duties as best man at Brad and Eloise’s wedding last weekend. The new tree is a...

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Geocaching – Llansteffan

It’s about time I caught up with some blogging here, but we have been so busy recently that writing about what we’ve been doing just gets in the way of DOING. However, one thing we have been doing a little bit of is geocaching. For those of you who don’t know what it is, basically...

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Stag do

Well, it was actually more fun than I had expected. Brad’s weding was a week away, I was Best man and so we had decided upon an activity weekend for the stag do. We were staying in a hostel and ‘Mexican Bar’ just outside of Carmarthen and had booked up to go paintballing and quad...

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Mmm Ice Cream

We’ve always known Morgan likes Ice Cream, and here he is tucking into one at Silverdale on our recent holiday to the Isle of Man.

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Holidays

Woohoo… Our holiday is nearly here. 🙂 And well deserved it is too this year.

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Harvey’s Wedding

It’s about time someone made a decent man of him, and tomorrow the lovely Siwan is doing just that. Harvey (my Best Man) is finally tying the knot in Aberystwyth and Anna and I shall be there to witness it. All the best to the pair of you… We’re looking forward to sharing the day...