Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
It seemed like Christmas again at the weekend for us. It was Morgan’s 7th birthday and my parents were here visiting. Morgan was pretty excited about it being his birthday and even more so when he saw the big pile of presents he had to open. I don’t think he was expecting much as we...
After my run in disgusting weather yesterday morning, I didn’t stop there. I did lots of work and then headed across to the beach in the afternoon for a nice windsurf session. It was a little gusty to start with but perfect in the gusts with some big waves out the back as well. It...
What a day, pouring with rain, blowing a gale and ‘proper nasty’ out there! No excuses though, I had to do a 45 minute easy run, so that’s exactly what I did. Thankfully I have plenty of wet weather gear, so on went my running tights, a long-sleeved thermal top, a waterproof jacket, buff, gloves...
It’s Morgans birthday soon and this year, rather than have a party we decided to have a day out at Chester Zoo with a couple of his friends. As it was half term last week, Anna took the day off work on Friday so that was the day that we all went to the zoo....
After an enforced break from triathlon training last week in preparation for a CPK Levels blood test on Tuesday, I was immediately back to it and raring to go. Tuesday Straight after the blood-letting at the hospital it time for an hour or hard core circuit training followed by an hour of swimfit. Wednesday Wednesday...
It’s half term again so Morgan is at home with me. That means an early start for me so that I can get work done and out of the way before Morgan gets out of bed, giving me plenty of time to keep him entertained. This mornings entertainment was a trip to the hospital for...
Phew, that’s Volume 2 (July – December) of our 2010 weblog book ready for print as well. After hundreds of hours of work laying it all out in a desktop publishing application, importing photos proof-reading and proof-reading again, creating a DVD of video clips to accompany it and then exporting each volume as a pdf...
I wouldn’t like to say how long I’ve spent on it – hundreds of hours probably – but I’ve almost finished the printed version of our ‘Simple Life of Luxury’ weblog book for from 2010. The 2009 edition was 440 pages long and looks glorious, but the 2010 version should top that. It will be...
It was the first weekend of the half term holidays and Morgan announced that he wanted to do some baking and who am I to argue with him. I left it all up to him and he decided on a recipe for Moon Rocks. We made some moon rocks with dried cherries in, asteroids with...
After to big freeze of last year, the winter of 2011-2012 has been fairly mild. So what does this mean for our honey bees? Well, we had a check on our three hives this winter and things don’t look too bad. It’s difficult to know if bees consume more food in warm winters than in...
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