Category: Family

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Visiting Santa in West Wales

It’ll soon be that time of year again when Morgan and all his friends from school will want to visit Santa and let him know what they want for Christmas. So, where can the big red bearded man be found? Tal y Llyn Railway He can be found on the Santa Specials at the Tal...

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So much for saving energy.

We’ve been doing fairly well with saving energy since we got out Energy Usage Monitor. But, we put the heating on today and I have three 20-mile round trips to Aberystwyth planned for today. In at 9am for my ‘Effective Online Writing’ course, back at 11am, in again at 3.30pm for the school run and...

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Family Mountain Biking at Nant yr Arian

At last, I finally got the whole family out for a mountain bike ride, and I think they enjoyed it. Unfortunately there isn’t a proper, family-friendly trail at Nant yr Arian. The easiest trail there has a few bits in it that aren’t really suitable for complete beginners or 4 year olds, and there is...

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Multi-Bird Roast

Amazingly it is already that time of year when we need to start thinking about Christmas! We’re on the ball as we have already ordered our Christmas Turkey. Last year we had a four-bird roast for our Christmas dinner, but Anna was ill so didn’t really get chance to enjoy it. We have therefore decided...

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Spidermen

Morgan and his best friend looking pleased with their spiderman faces!!

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The Height of Luxury

As the title of this website states, we are supposed to be living a Simple Life of Luxury here in West Wales. I think we are achieving that. To add to the luxury we are currently fitting a new en-suite shower room to the house. We’ve been planning to do this since building the house...

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Picnics, Off-roading and Dragonflies

Sunday was a gorgeous day. Blue skies without a cloud and no wind. So after breakfast we all jumped in the car and headed off to the lakes in the hills. We stopped at Llyn Syfyddrin for a bit of a walk and a picnic. Somehow we seemed to time it wrong as it was...

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Beach Art & Photography

Our busy weekend continued with a day on the beach (after re-visiting the moth traps set the night before). Morgan and I had a play in the sea, which gave me a chance to get my waterproof camera properly wet. It coped well and considering its size and durability I’m still pretty impressed with the...

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Things to do in Ynyslas Dunes

It looks as though we have a busy weekend ahead of us. My parents are visiting so Morgan is looking forward to seeing ‘Ninny and Grandad’ and we’ve been looking for things to do. There is quite a bit going on at the Ynyslas Dunes Visitor centre. On Friday evening they are organising a ‘National...

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Tedi Twt and an Adder

At Morgan’s school, each weekend one of the reception class kids gets to take home ‘Tedi Twt’ with instructions to look after him, keep him clean and dry and take him with you wherever you go. Kind of like taking the hamster home for the holidays without quite so much responsibility! It may not be...