Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
It was now Wednesday 24th October and we were awake early so made an early start. Through the Jungle After a breakfast of coffee and cereal in the camper we packed up and headed north along a gravel road to Waipoua Forest. The road itself was pretty interesting, a gravel track cutting through forest clad...
I’m not really sure what the difference between a sweet potato and a yam is, but we’ve been quite successful growing them this year. We didn’t really expect them to do that well, but they’ve been sat in pots both in the conservatory and out potato planters in the garden and have been growing away....
Not a great year for the bees this year. Our new apiary never got off the ground despite being in what should be the perfect location. We’ll try again with that next year. The weather has been terrible. Plenty of flowers about for the bees but there just haven’t been enough opportunities for them to...
We’ve had a busy beekeeping time lately. What with our honey extraction, a visit to the National Beekeeping Centre, the ABKA Photo competition and now we’ve had a chance to try our hand at some traditional beekeeping craftsmanship – We attended a Skep Making Workshop with the Aberystwyth Beekeepers Association. As with most of the...
I seem to be doing lots of beekeeping related things at the moment – other than actually doing any husbandry of my own bees of course! Tuesday was the beekeeping photo competition, then we’ll be Skep making on Sunday and on Wednesday a few members of the Aberystwyth Beekeeping Association visited the National Beekeeping Centre Wales,...
Well, we did once again manage to get some honey from our bees. Not a lot but one or two (small) jars more than last year. Not much and not a very successful year all round with the bees, but what little we did get is delicious!
Well, the first ever Aberystwyth Seaside Triathlon was a roaring success. I hope everyone had a good day. I’m sure the competitors won’t agree with me but I reckon helping to organise and marshall all day is actually harder work than when I’m racing. I’ve now uploaded the photos I’ve taken to the Aberystwyth Seaside Triathlon...
I’ve recently returned from a very successful weekend at the Rother Valley Triathlon Festival. I’ve written a full Rother Valley Triathlon Race Report elsewhere, but being the organised type I like to arrive at such places early just to get a feel for them and so that I don’t need to rush. The race was...
We had the Aberystwyth Beekeepers Association photo competition on Tuesday evening. Vicki who was orgainsing it this year had put a huge amount of effort into it so there were some really good prizes up for grabs. We however didn’t really put much effort into it this year as we didn’t have much time so...
Phew, I think we’ve just about caught up after our whistle stop visit to the Isle of Man. The main reason for visiting the island this year was to attend the wedding of Andy and Natalie, but as the wedding fell on the same weekend as the Isle of Man End2End mountain bike race I...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
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