Spooky Halloween Pumpkins
Anna and Morgan were busy carving pumpkins yesterday…
Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Anna and Morgan were busy carving pumpkins yesterday…
Grrrr…. I’m annoyed! I haven’t posted much about my triathlon training lately. I have been doing some, but nothing too much, just ticking along over the past few months. I had however been getting back into it ready for the winter. Swimming My swimming rarely changes but I’ve been getting in the pool a couple...
If you haven’t already done so, then it’s time to think about baking your Christmas Cake. I know some people do it much earlier than this, but the half term holidays seems like a perfect time to do it. We have about 8 weeks until Christmas itself, which give me plenty of time to ‘feed’...
We’ve been getting our toes ready for Halloween… Although we have now tasked Anna with finding some glow in the dark nail-varnish instead so they may well change by the end of the week. Especially seeing as I don’t really like the yellow, but we didn’t have any orange colpured nail varnish.
We all had fun at the Honey Show the other evening, even if it was a bit of a rush to get there after work and parents evening. As usual it was a fairly relaxed affair. As well as the various bee-keeping categories within the show such as jars of honey, wax blocks, frames ready...
With the Borth Weather Station recording 40 knots and things looking decidedly autumnal out there I thought it was time to make sure the bees were ready for winter. I’d like to feed them a little bit more really but my first concern was to make sure the hives hadn’t blown over and to strap...
With the Aberystwyth Beekeeping Association’s annual Honey Show fast approaching we thought we had better get a few entries organised. The schedule for the show is: Bottle of mead. Two one pound jars of light honey. Two one pound jars of medium honey. Two one pound jars of dark honey. Two one pound jars of...
Considering the amount of time I used to spend windsurfing, surfing, mountain-biking and other such Outdoor Pursuits I have been fairly lacking in such activities lately. Other things seem to have taken over and there just aren’t enough hours in the day and days in the week to fit it all in. Triathlon training certainly...
What with autumn well and truly here, riding my bike on the roads isn’t quite as much fun as it is in the summer – I don’t mind the cold and rain, it’s just not so safe in the dark with cars and lorries sharing the road too. On top of that I’m supposed to be doing...
I’ve recently enrolled on a Level 2 Cycle Coaching Course with British Cycling and spent the weekend in Ammanford for two days of intensive study towards it. After an early morning drive to Ammanford Leisure Centre I met up with my fellow participants on the course and we were introduced to Will and Mark our...