A Simple Life of Luxury

Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means

Category: Hobbies & Pastimes

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Gardening

Gardening Blues

I haven’t mentioned the garden for a while. It was looking lovely last year, but for various reasons that I won’t go into here (not yet anyway) it was destroyed over the winter. The Pergola was ripped down, most of the grass has gone and many plants were uprooted, squashed or otherwise met an untimely...

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Gardening

Goji Berry Bushes

The latest addition to our garden are some Goji Berry Bushes. Apparently they are very drought tolerant don’t mind sandy soil and can cope with wind and coastal conditions… We’ll see as we do have slightly extreme coastal conditions here. If they survivie then we may be able to create a nice little fruting hedge...

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Geocaching

Persistance pays whilst geocaching

After a long search and several unsuccessful missions, air28uk has finally found our Assume Nothing #2 geocache. These Assume Nothing caches are supposed to be a little difficult and tricky and judging by his log, the persistence paid off and made the eventual find all the more satisfying. This is the log entry: Location: United...

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Gardening

Water Butts and Garden Reconstruction

I feel as though I’ve had a fairly productive weekend here. There was enough wind for windsurfing on Saturday, but my chest was still a little sore so I started the day by installing our two new water butts instead. All went to plan and the fact that it was raining whilst I installed them...

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Geocaching

Assume Nothing Wales #3 Geocache

After a failed attempt at hiding the latest in the Assume Nothing Wales series of geocaches, we returned to the top secret location at the weekend and got some better co-ordinate readings. The cache is now live on geocaching.com and the First to Find (FTF) is up for grabs. This one is quite a bit...

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Geocaching / Technology / Wales

New Assume Nothing Geocache

Morgan and I headed off this morning to a top secret location to hide a new geocache as part of the Assume Nothing Wales series. The weather wasn’t great, grey and overcast with snow around in places so we wrapped up warm, parked up and headed off to the chosen spot. Morgan was on his...

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General / Photography

New camera – Bargain hunting

I’ve been toying with the idea of a new camera or two for a while now. My existing camera is good, a Panasonic DMC LZ10 but it isn’t quite perfect. When I bought it I was after the best of both world, the easy an portability of a compact and the versatility of an SLR....

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Gardening / Weather

Wind Resistant Plants?

So much for my wind resistant plants!! All had been going well and the new pergola was looking lovely with a very luxurious growth of Polygonum and Solanum that I had planted in June. In fact we had been surprised by the growth which was of course due in part by the warm, wet and...

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Geocaching / MTB / Trail Guides / Wales

Trail Guide – Anglers and Artists

Readers of this blog will know that I’ve been doing quite a bit of mountain-biking recently and armed with my trusty Forerunner GPSr have of course been recording where I’ve been. Many of the routes have been along properly way-marked trails at trail centres, other have been in more remote areas so I thought I...

Coastal Gardening – Soil 2

Gardening

Coastal Gardening – Soil

As we’ve already mentioned elsewhere in this series our garden here on the coast of West Wales experiences the extremes of most parameters that determine what will and what won’t grow. The soil is no exception. Most gardens have soil that range from a nice middle-of the road loam through towards either the heavy clayey...

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