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Moody Nant yr Arian

Just a nice little photo from a brooding, moody Nant yr Arian.

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Birthday Day Out

Yet another year older for me as it was my birthday on Sunday. This year, there were no exciting adventurous sporting activities which was probably a good thing as I was still suffering with a lingering lurgy. So, after a chilled morning I opened my birthday presents over breakfast. There was a new heart rate monitor...

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Wales Coast Path Run – Conwy to Rhos on Sea

Coast Path Vital Stats Conwy to Rhos on Sea Distance: 13.80 miles Elevation Gain Today: 287m Highest Elevation: 142m Time: 3:17:42 Av. Pace: 14:20 mins/mile Av. Heart Rate: Max Heart Rate: Calories: 2308 Totals to Date Total Distance: 396.48miles Total Time: 75:21:47 Total Elevation Gain: 10787 Total Calories: 37308 Distance to go: 499 miles Another day and another chance to complete...

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Christmas Charities Fete and Lantern Parade

Weekends are always busy for us and the past weekend was no exception. Saturday was packed full of Christmas festivities for the Scouts. Christmas Charities Fete It started with the annual Christmas charities fete in the Community Hall in Borth. The Scouts were running the Santa’s Grotto, the kitchen, a big raffle, the tombola, a...

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New Gadgets – Christmas comes Early

Christmas seems to have come a little early for us with a host of new gadgets this weekend. New Car and New Roofrack OK, this wasn’t this weekend, but I’ve got a new car – I’ll write a full post about this story soon but I’ve got a new (to me) Vauxhall Meriva and therefore needed a...

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Cheesemaking at River Cottage

So, Alan treated me to a cheesemaking course at River Cottage for my birthday.  I’m not really sure how we decided on cheesemaking but I fancied a cookery course and I think we thought it would be nice to do some something completely different rather than baking bread or cakes.  We did some research and...

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Cross by the Sea – Welsh Cyclo-cross League Round 10

I missed round 9 of the Welsh Cyclo-cross league last weekend as we were away in Devon. From what I saw though it was an extremely cold, very muddy and showy affair – just what I was expecting from Cyclo-cross really. By contrast round 10 in Pembrey, Cross by the Sea, was clear and sunny...

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New Toe Design

Hooray, a new design on my toes. Hope you like them.

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School Photo

We don’t always buy Morgan’s school photos – it’s not as though we don’t have our own photos of him after all, but we did get this years as it was his first in secondary school and quite a nice photo too.

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Lanterns, Tesco, Silver Band and Fantastic Beasts

As you can tell from the title, we had a busy day lined up for Saturday, and the title only tells the half of it. I can’t even remember what I did first thing in the morning, but I had a cold, was bunged up and felt terrible so kept myself dosed up with Day Nurse....