A Simple Life of Luxury

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

Author: Alan Cole

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General

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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Nature / Play

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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General / Play

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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Family / Play

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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General

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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Family / Lifestyle / Play

Holidays

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

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General

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...

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General

Scorchio

We might not be hitting the same sort of temperatures here as other parts of the UK, but so far today in the shade we have hit 33.7ºC which is more than hot enough for me!

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Family / Lifestyle

Anniversary in Aberaeron

It was our 2nd wedding anniversary yesterday, so we took the day off and headed down the coast to Aberaeron for lunch and an ice-cream by the harbour. It seems mean to leave Morgan in nursery and have a day to oursleves, but once every now and then it is quite nice and it makes...

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Lifestyle

Time for a timber deck

We’ve probably missed the summer, but it is time for some home improvements. Organising these projects always takes me longer than actually getting them done, but some of the timber ready for a new timber deck arrived today. With Shem building it for us (hopefully next week) we could have a nice new decking area...

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