Category: Family

Aberystwyth & District Beekeepers Association Meeting 2

Aberystwyth & District Beekeepers Association Meeting

Amazon.co.uk Widgets Continuing my research and plans to start beekeeping, I attended a meeting of the Aberystwyth & District Beekeepers Association on Sunday. It was a gorgeous day for it, hot sunny and still. We met at a members house where she has a number of beehives – probably abut 15 , plus chickens, geese,...

Home and Garden Centres 0

Home and Garden Centres

Saturday in the ‘big smoke’ (or close to it) and Anna wanted to go to Ikea. It was nice day so on the way we stopped off at a couple of garden centres on the A38. The first was Eastwood Garden Centre which was a nice, well laid out independent garden centre with nice healthy...

Wotton Triathlon Here I Come 1

Wotton Triathlon Here I Come

I’m not ready for it, I seem to be constantly ill and unable to train but the weekend of my first Triathlon for 20 years has arrived so there’s no going back now. As long as my cold doesn’t get any worse I should be able to get around, but I can’t see myself putting...

How Many Species of Plant and Animal Does your Garden House? 0

How Many Species of Plant and Animal Does your Garden House?

The other day I was having a discussion with Morgan (who is 5) about the number of species of plants and animals that live in our garden. Ever since he has been going on to me to write a list of every plant and animal that I can think of that we’ve seen in the...

The Best Day to Visit the Blue Lagoon 1

The Best Day to Visit the Blue Lagoon

Morgan’s school was closed on Thursday as it was being used as a polling station, so we decided to make the most of the opportunity and Anna and I took the day off too. We decided that it would be the perfect day to head the the Blue Lagoon, a water-park on the edge of...

Morgan helping with the Borth Beach CLean 0

Borth & Ynyslas Beach Clean

Morgan and I wandered across to the beach to help with the Borth & Ynyslas Beach Clean yesterday. Dave & Sarah organise these on a fairly regular basis and recently for various reasons such as being away, children’s parties, too windy etc. etc. we’ve been unable to help out so it was good to be...

Garden Makeover 2

Building a Raised, Graveled Seating Area

As you may have read in a previous post I’ve been wanting to transform the garden a little and give it a garden makeover. Rather than just a piece of grass surrounded by shrubs and flowers I want to create a garden that leads you on and encourages to explore a little further. I want...

Beekeeping in West Wales 1

Beekeeping in West Wales

Amazon.co.uk Widgets I’ve wanted to become a beekeeper for a while now, but as with many things such as this the barriers of entry are quite high. First, there is a lot to learn and it is a little daunting. Not only is there a whole new vocabulary to learn, but there are techniques and...