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New Additions

I did say I wouldn’t buy any more houseplants for a while. You know what that means don’t you! Yep, whilst at the garden centre for brunch they had a whole selection of tiny little houseplants just come in. I couldn’t resist! They are only tiny, but I ended up with It’ll be a while...

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Steady Pace Increase

I thought I’d go for a slightly longer run today. It was a quiet day with a light breeze and cloudy skies so I decided to stay close to home and just do laps of the dunes. The lap around the top portion of the dunes is exactly 1 mile long. It goes up over...

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Summertime Shreddin’

It’s not often in Wales that it’s too warm in the sea with a thin 3/2mm wetsuit on, but it was today. What’s more, there was a perfect 25 knots of wind, the sun was shining and the tides were just right. There was no option but to spend the day windsurfing! I was perfectly...

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Waterspout

The summery weather seems to have left us for a while. I even spotted a fairly impressive waterspout just out to sea a little whilst driving into work the other day. I managed to stop and snap a quick couple of photos of it with my phone. A proper telephoto lens would have been better,...

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Bee Pool Party

The bees seem to be loving the new garden pond. There were literally hundreds of them all lined up along the edges at the weekend. We had a hedgehog visitor at the weekend too, and there was a cool photo of a stoat on top of a fence post in the dunes here posted on...

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Fine Dining at Gwen

The (probably) last of our anniversary treats was a fine-dining experience at the relatively new restaurant “Gwen” in Machynlleth. Gwen is an intimate 8-seat restaurant offering a communal dining experience. The experience begins at 3pm or 7pm, where you’ll have a chance to have a drink before a 10 course tasting menu is served by...

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Houseplant Obsession

Long-time readers of this blog will know I get into projects for a while and go all out on them! I usually keep them going in the background afterwards but don’t necessarily blog about them or invest quite so much energy into them after a while. My latest obsession is houseplants! Don’t worry, I won’t...

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Anniversary Treats

Seeing as we hadn’t long got back from Norway, we had a fairly quiet weekend. Saturday I’d brought home a little bit of lurgy with me anyway so had been taking things easy as far as exercise is concerned. There was lots of wind forecast though so Steve was coming to the coast for the...

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Norway Trip Part 5 – Oslo

Our journey across Norway was coming towards its end. So far we had travelled to Bergen where we spent a day exploring the city. We’d then taken the Bergen to Oslo train as far as Voss where we spent the day running in the hills, walking in gorges and chilling by the lakeside. We’d then...