Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Our new conservatory may well be a welcome new addition to the house for us, but it seems to be a giant fly trap as well. We got some fly ‘killer’ stickers on Amazon which arrived really quickly and certainly seem to do the job. We used something similar last year but the stickers turned...
Alan was out for the day so Morgan and I did a bit of Easter baking. We started with Hot Cross Buns to keep to an Easter theme and made these using the bread maker before leaving them to rise in the warmth of the conservatory. Morgan wanted to make flapjacks so these were next...
Like almost everyone in the country, we’ve been enjoying the spring sunshine, sometimes from within our new conservatory which is now finished and is a lovely place to sit and watch the world go by, other times from within the garden itself. We’re not the only ones either, the plants and flowers seem to be...
Our next door neighbours are a little behind after Xmas 2010 – or could they be one step ahead of everyone ready for Xmas 2011? Whichever it is their living room still contains their Xmas Tree, so here’s a festive treat for you all – weren’t expecting that at this time of year were you!
My poor garden is being dug up yet again – This time courtesy of BT. How many times does one man have to re-seed his lawn.
Progress has slowed down a little on the conservatory over the past week or so. The guy who has been tasked with doing the plastering, rendering and tiling only works a couple of days a week so there hasn’t been a huge amount of activity. He has now finished though. He did the internal plastering...
The barge that is carrying 21,000 tonnes of rock for the Borth Sea Defences is still moored about 5km offshore from Borth. We can see it on the horizon. There is a also smaller barge with it that will be ferrying in loads of rock at each high-tide (wind and waves permitting) and dropping them off...
We had a little walk along the beach on Sunday morning to check out progress on the sea defences. It was a grey day and the tide was farily high so we couldn’t really see much in the way of progress. The beach has been built out quite a way at the southern end of Borth...
Progress on the new conservatory has been good today. We now have Pilkington Self-Cleaning Glass in all the frames and the Pilkington Blue Activ self-cleaning solar control glass in the roof. A few little finishing touches have been added here and there as well. There is still quite a bit to do, the electrician is...
It was a gorgeous Spring day here in West Wales on Saturday. After a little bit of a potter in the garden and fixing of the water feature I headed off for a ride to Nant yr Arian on my new Road Bike with Jon. I met him in Aberystwyth and we headed out along...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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