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Clear Skies at Last – The Moon, Jupiter, Mizar and Alcor 1

Clear Skies at Last – The Moon, Jupiter, Mizar and Alcor

Following the amazing sunset we had yesterday here at Ynyslas I was hopeful that we might finally get a chance to use our new telescope. My optimism was short lived though because as soon as I had I returned from taking a photo of the sunset it started pouring with rain again. They do say that...

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New Years Day in the Sea

I’ve started the year as I mean to continue. First was a windsurf off the seafront and then a swim in the estuary with people from the Triathlon Club. It was a pretty miserable day mind you, not really enough wind for the windsurf session and pouring with rain during the swim. We all returned to...

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Happy Poo Year!

It’s not all fun and games here you know. This is how I spent my News Years Eve – rodding the drains to remove a blockage. Fun hey!

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Coast Path Run

The last time I ran along the coast path from Borth was the day I tore some ligaments in my ankle back in July. Since then I’ve been a little wary of running along it so have stuck to slightly more even routes and haven’t ventured onto the coast path. My ankle is still sore from the injury...

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Enough with the Mist, Murk and Miserable Weather

I think it may be our fault. Since Christmas there seems to have been nothing but mist, murk and miserable weather. We’re used to that here in Wales but it has been pretty bad. We’ve barely been able to se Aberdovey across the river, let alone out to the hills and we’ve had no chance...

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Back on the Bike

It’s been ages since I’ve been out on my mountain bike – 3 months to be precise as the last time I was out was the Coed y Brenin Enduro back at the beginning of October. I finally got back out there today though with a quick spin around the Summit Trail and Hippity Hop...

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Burning off the mince pies

Another busy day here today – Hopefully I’ll have burnt off some of the excess Christmas calories, but some how I doubt it because I seem to be fuelling myself with pringles, mince pies, cake and licquorice allsorts. First session of the day was a 1 hr 20 minute turbo trainer session. This was followed by a shower and...

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End of Year Windsurf

December seems to be remaining surprisingly mild this year and thankfully brought with it plenty of wind between Christmas and New year, so it was business as usual here with plenty of windsurfing. Steve and AndyW joined me and there were a number of kite-surfers out too including Spooker, Neal, Neil, Andy, Dunk and probably...

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Epic Hot Chocolate

And the Christmas Indulging continues with yet another ‘Epic’ Hot chocolate.

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Boys Toys for Xmas

Morgan and I have just got back from playing with his ‘Boys Toys’ at Nant yr Arian. I took him out on a nice ride on his lovely new bike. He needs to get used to it still but once he has, it’ll be much better than his old one. He also had a skateboard...