A Simple Life of Luxury

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

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Lifestyle / Play / Weather

Wales has it all!

What a perfect day here. First up windsurfing in the estuary at Ynyslas with decent 25-35 knot winds and the sun shining and then a lovely walk in the hills near Plynlimon. The road up there is pretty scary at the best of time, but as I got towards the top there was loads of...

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Weather

Here comes winter

We’ve had a pretty wet and windy spell here in West Wales recently. There have been quite few days with wind gusts exceeding 50 knots, but so far the winter has been pretty mild. Temperatures have been above average and I can’t remember when we last had a frost. It even looked as though spring...

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Storms

We’ve had a windy winter so far, but today looks as though it will be one of the bigger storms. The weather station here is already reading gusts in excess of 55 knots… Could be a record breaker today!

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Nature / Weather

Another record breaking windspeed

Continuing on from my post yesterday about autumn being back to normal, the winds are continuing to batter us here in Wales. The weather station recorded a gust of 48.8 knots on Sunday (the strongest up until then), but this morning we have beaten that with a gust of 53.6 knots. (Thats 61.7 mph or...