Happy Poo Year!
It’s not all fun and games here you know. This is how I spent my News Years Eve – rodding the drains to remove a blockage. Fun hey!
Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
It’s not all fun and games here you know. This is how I spent my News Years Eve – rodding the drains to remove a blockage. Fun hey!
And the Christmas Indulging continues with yet another ‘Epic’ Hot chocolate.
Morgan and I have just got back from playing with his ‘Boys Toys’ at Nant yr Arian. I took him out on a nice ride on his lovely new bike. He needs to get used to it still but once he has, it’ll be much better than his old one. He also had a skateboard...
We’re not really coffee snobs, but ever since getting a Senseo coffee machine several years ago we’ve kind of got a taste for nice coffee and instant coffee just isn’t the same. We don’t drink a huge amount of coffee, ubless of course you call 3-4 cups a day a huge amount. We do however...
Thanks to everyone for my birthday greetings, cards and presents yesterday. Although I did do a little experiment on Facebook where I hid my birthday from my profile until the evening… During that time I didn’t get a single birthday wish via Facebook, but within seconds of switching it back on they came flooding in!...
The days are pretty short at the moment here so I had to rush to fit everything in today. I was up early to sort out the laundry and do some chores and then do an hour or so of work on the computer whilst I waited for first light. Once there was some light...
This year for our Christmas family gathering we all headed off to the Forest of Dean. First we had a very nice and very large lunch in the Miners Arms and then went to Clearwell Caves to visit Santa. The caves are actually a combination of natural caves and extensive mine workings. The mining dates...
With Christmas fast approaching and the number of weekends left available for the family get together dwindling, we had a relatively early family weekend this year. Anna, Morgan and I drove to my parents house on Friday straight after work and school. We don’t go to the city very often so we took the opportunity...
Thanks to the strikes yesterday, I was forced to have a day off as the schools were closed and Morgan was at home with me. We therefore decided to head off in search of some geocaches and lunch in Machynlleth. First stop was a cache called ‘The Manx Connection’ I had a pretty good idea where it...
Christmas came early to out household yesterday. It’s a long story, but Anna cam home on Friday with a huge (8kg) fresh turkey. There was nothing to do, but to cook it. So yesterday we made a start with eating it, but even with help from Robbie the cat we barely made a dent in it....