New Nails
They are a little scratched and worn already, but I thought I’d better share my new nails with you. The Union Jacks that I had ready for the World Championships have been replaced by a more Welsh theme.
Category: General
Multi tasking from a young age
Morgan has recently started to learn the cornet and school and it he says he is really enjoying it. He has been practising every day and we are looking forward to him learning a few more notes so he can play some tunes. At the moment he can play C and D very nicely! At...
Treating our Bees for Varroa
We haven’t treated our bees in the past as there has been very little sign of any varroa problems in our hives. However we did a varroa drop count the other day and over a period of 24 hours there was getting on for 10 varroa mites on the varroa board of one of the...
Chocolate Cheesecake Recipe
OK, as promised in my recent post, here’s the chocolate cheesecake recipe that I made up at the weekend. Needless to say, the fact that I’m sharing it means that it worked and tasted ‘kinda nice’! But I’ll let you be the judge of that, you’ll just have to make one to try it. Ingredients 150g...
Courgettes from the Isle of Man
While chopping up our first batch of baby courgettes from the garden for tea last night I came across this one with mini three legs of man inside. They are definitely from Wales but it is nice to see and bit of the Isle of Man cropping up when you don’t expect it!
Garden produce
It’s taken a while to get going this year but suddenly the strawberries, black currants, red currants and raspberries are ready to pick and eat. We’ve also picked our first baby courgettes and purple sprouting broccoli. It’s lovely to have food for tea that we have grown ourselves.
More Celebrity Coverage!
I’m in the paper again this week. That’s two weeks, possibly three, in a row. Shame there’s no sign of a celebrity lifestyle to go with it!
12 tips for keeping your home tidy
I have a guest post for you today which includes some items from John Lewis – I hope Anna and Morgan read it as they could learn something from it. Mind you, if I took action on the first of the 12 tips ‘tackle the source’ I’d evicting the pair of them from the house!...
Ceredigion Sports Awards
As someone who has represented Team-GB in a sport and competed on an international level, I had been invited to attend the 2013 Ceredigion Sports Awards. These were held yesterday in Aberaeron to recognise sporting achievements across Ceredigion. Billed as the ‘International Awards Presentation’ there were 23 people being presented with awards. Anna and I decided...
Turkey Day 5 – ETU European Age-Group Triathlon Championships Race Report
With Race Day upon us, Roger and I saved ourselves the walk from the hotel and instead shared a taxi into Alanya. Due to all the road closures it couldn’t get that close to the transition area but it saved us a walk with all our kit. We then walked the rest of the way...
