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Pudding Party!!!

Well, that was an unexpected surprise. I thought we did well on the pudding front last weekend with a huge carvery followed by 7 full size puddings and a slice of chocolate birthday cake, but that has been exceeded today! I had an early breakfast and then went for a run and a swim followed...

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Resurrecting an Ecosystem

Amazon.co.uk Widgets You know me, I always have a few projects on the go, and at the weekend I started yet another! When we first built our house about 10 years ago I set up a nice planted aquarium. I don’t like to do things the ‘normal way’ so rather than have a tank with...

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Colour!

It’s nice to see some colour in the garden at last.

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The Changing Face of Website Design

Whilst adding an image to a recent news post on my Website Design website I saw a gallery of images uploaded to articles over the past few years. I was struck by the way it looked so took a screenshot of it. These are of course all little snippets of designs I have produced over...

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Andromeda through my Meade 15mm Eyepiece

Christmas may only be a distant memory now, and my birthday was a couple of weeks before that, but one of my birthday presents was a Meade 15mm eyepiece for my Skywatcher 130 telescope. I have briefly used it once or twice since then but Sunday night was the first time I got to use it properly. This isn’t...

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Taking Care of the Calories

After such a pig out yesterday I thought it was time to get back into it step up the training and burn off some of the calories! Last week was a recovery week so a fairly easy week for me with 2 rest days! Here’s my training diary: This meant that I was fairly well...

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Tips for an efficient kitchen

We have a guest post for you today which includes some items from John Lewis. It’s quite pertinent as well as we’ve been enjoying our cooking and baking recently here, so without further ado, here it is: Tips for an efficient kitchen When you’re prepping and cooking meals, you should be able to locate the...

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Now thats what I call lunch

We hadn’t been to the Marine Hotel in Aberystwyth for their Sunday Carvery for ages but as my parents were here for the weekend, it was nearly Morgans birthday and we didn’t do anything for Valentines Day we thought we’d treat ourselves. Last time we went we were impressed, especially with the puddings so were...

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A Day out in Aberystwyth

My parents are visiting this weekend – It’s Morgan’s birthday soon so they have come up to see him. Saturday was a nice enough day weather-wise, although still a little grey and overcast in the morning. Anna had to work so set off early while Morgan, my Mum and Dad and mysefl had a slow...

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Ynyslas Floods

My parents are here visiting for the weekend so yesterday after our ride at Nant yr Arian I jumped on the Turbo Trainer for an hour of 14 Ramps ranging from 120% to 150% of FTP whilst they went for a walk in the dunes. Here’s what I did: In the meantime Morgan ‘Ninny’ and Grandad...