Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I managed to squeeze a few hours working in the garden into my hectic weekend schedule on Saturday. I’d already mowed the lawn a day or so ago, so todays chores were tidying up the edges around the various beds and borders, weeding, cutting back and pruning a few plants and potting out some Rosemary cuttings. The...
I’m sure we weren’t the only ones, but we spent much of Bank Holiday Monday in the garden. I also went for a gorgeous swim in the sea. The water temperature was up to 9°C and the air temperature made it to 14.9°C so the cold was no longer an issue and I had a...
I thought it was time that we could enjoy the garden from inside the house as well as out. It does afterall seem as though Spring has finally arrived and the garden is beginning to look nice. Cleaning the windows helped. They get coated in salt spray here in no time so over the winter...
Sunday was a nice busy day for us – just for a change! As usual it started fairly early for me at around 6am when I got up, checked e-mails etc. and had some breakfast before heading off to Machynlleth in Anna’s Fiat 500 hire car for a run. My planned session was a fairly easy one...
There must be something wrong with Morgan – he didn’t want the cake mixture scrapings from the mixing bowl!! Not to worry, more for me. His tune soon changed once he got to smell the date cake cooking though and I’m not surprised as you’ve never smelt anything so nice. I’m salivating too whilst waiting...
Amongst the variety of stalls that the Borth 2nd Scouts run at the local summer charities fete is a bric-a-brac stall that we always find quite depressing. We’ve helped out with it for a few years now and it’s never that exciting. Don’t get me wrong, we are of course grateful for all donations to...
Well, as predicted it was indeed a gorgeous day today, and after a solid 12 hours working in the garden my back is killing me and it’s time for a well-earned rest. I started off with a little bit of gardening at 6am this morning, doing quiet things like weeding so as not to wake...
It looks as though it’s going to be another gorgeous day. The sun is rising over the back garden and I can’t wait to get started. Gardening or the beach, which shall it be?
It’s nice to see the sunshine and some colour in the garden at last. Things are still off to a slow start this Spring though with snow still on the hills and very little happening in the garden. Here’s a few flowers enjoying the sunshine on Easter Sunday.
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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