Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Yet more festive celebrations here in Aberystwyth. I work from home as a Freelance Website Designer on Monday’s and Tuesdays and then work at the Univeristy as a Lab Technician Wednesday to Friday. So,after seeing Anna and Morgan off to school and work on Monday morning, I did a whole load of chores around the...
Yet another year older for me as it was my birthday on Sunday. This year, there were no exciting adventurous sporting activities which was probably a good thing as I was still suffering with a lingering lurgy. So, after a chilled morning I opened my birthday presents over breakfast. There was a new heart rate monitor...
We don’t always buy Morgan’s school photos – it’s not as though we don’t have our own photos of him after all, but we did get this years as it was his first in secondary school and quite a nice photo too.
As you can tell from the title, we had a busy day lined up for Saturday, and the title only tells the half of it. I can’t even remember what I did first thing in the morning, but I had a cold, was bunged up and felt terrible so kept myself dosed up with Day Nurse....
I had hoped that Anna would have blogged about her Cheesemaking course by now so that I could have linked to it from this post. She hasn’t yet so I’ll just have to post this without the link and add that later. I’d bought her a day long cheese-making course at Hugh Fearnley Whittingstalls River Cottage HQ...
I know, I didn’t think there was such thing as a ‘normal week’ these days, but last week does indeed seem to have been one. Hence the lack of blog posts here. There wasn’t much to write about really as it was just a normal week. A Normal Week Bike racing on Sunday, School and...
It’s Half Term here so Morgan and I spent most of the day walking into Borth and making Skittle Rainbows. We took a bit of a detour on the way into Borth battling the Pokémon Gyms on the way – We ended up getting ourselves into all 6 gyms in Borth and Ynyslas which was...
I was back from our activity weekend by mid afternoon on Sunday. I therefore had plenty of time to unpack, was things out and then do some chores. Tidying the house a little, cleaning out the fishtank and then as Anna cooked dinner I made a start on this years Christmas Cake. Yep, it’s that...
Whilst I was out on Sunday at the Carmarthen Showground Cyclo-cross event, Morgan and his friend James decided to do some bottle flipping. It’s one of those crazes that seems to be sweeping the nation and as a pre-teen Morgan of course jumps onto every one of them. They made a few YouTube videos of...
We had our first Parents Evening at Morgan’s new school earlier this week. A chance for us to meet his form teacher and see how they thought he was settling in. As far as we were concerned he seems to be loving it. Always keen to go to school in the mornings, loving the independence...
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