Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Following on from my post yesterday about letting my diet slip a little, this doesn’t really help matters! It’s a banana and chocolate cake that I baked yesterday to use up some bananas that we had left over from the Scout camp. Trouble is it only actually used 2 bananas which is fine, but the...
I knew it would happen.. Less than three weeks to go until the European Triathlon Champs and I blew my healthy eating regime on Scout Camp. Shed loads of sweets, chocolate and cakes, far too much bread and loads of sausages! Thankfully it was only a couple of days and we’d taken plenty of fruit and...
Phew, we survived – and as far as I know the Scouts enjoyed themselves too. We have all just got back from a Scout camp that Anna and I organised. Since becoming Scout Leaders we have been on a couple of camps but this was the first one that we had organised and run on...
I still feel silly calling myself an athlete, even if it is a triathlete, but I’ve been fairly fortunate lately and have been feeling almost like a real one. Things have been quiet on the work front – quiet enough so as to have some financial worries – but on the plus side it has meant that there...
On the way to Devils Bridge on Sunday Morgan informed me that it was National Baking Day, (in fact I think it is National Baking Week), so once we got back from Devils Bridge in the afternoon there was nothing for it but to do some baking… I know, I know, we should of had plenty of...
We have a guest post for you today from Jet2, all about Magnificent Malaga… Malaga is the perfect place to go if you’re after a break from all this chilly British weather! It’s got lots more to offer than beaches and sunshine, although it does have plenty of that too. On top of the typical...
We had a good day yesterday and once again a busy one, just the way I like it. My day started at 4am when I got up and started some early morning baking and cleaning. Once Morgan was up and the baking was all under control I stopped for some breakfast and watched Gardeners World...
I managed to squeeze a few hours working in the garden into my hectic weekend schedule on Saturday. I’d already mowed the lawn a day or so ago, so todays chores were tidying up the edges around the various beds and borders, weeding, cutting back and pruning a few plants and potting out some Rosemary cuttings. The...
7am and I’ve been up for three hours so as to do a load of baking whilst the electricity is cheaper. Managed to get a load of washing and a dishwasher load done at the same time. And here are the fruits (or should that be ‘cakes’) of my labour. 2 Rotorua Mud Cakes 1 Earl Grey...
It’s so nice with the light evenings and slightly warmer weather to be outdoors with the Scouts. The winter months become a little diffiuclt trying to organise suitable activities for them but now that the days are longer we can just go outdoors and do something. Last nights activity was a walk from Clarach to Borth along...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
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