Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
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...
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...
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...
And the Christmas Indulging continues with yet another ‘Epic’ Hot chocolate.
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...
We’re not really coffee snobs, but ever since getting a Senseo coffee machine several years ago we’ve kind of got a taste for nice coffee and instant coffee just isn’t the same. We don’t drink a huge amount of coffee, ubless of course you call 3-4 cups a day a huge amount. We do however...
I decided to organise a Boxing Day swim with the INTR Triathlon Club this year. We didn’t have a huge number of takers and I think a few of those that did turn up were just trying to humour me, but they enjoyed themselves in the end and were glad they did it. The air...
I think Morgan may have broken a record on Christmas Day as he managed to make it start at 2:30am! Santa had already been, so he came into our bed with his stocking and opening the presents in it. For some reason Santa must have been punishing us as he had left him an electronic...
It may be cold, wet and dreary out there, but its Christmas for the Homey Bees too, so we’ve given ourbees a Christmas treat this week in the form of some fondant. Having not fed bees in the winter before we weren’t too sure how to do it but I gave it a go with...
Death of a PC Unfortunately, while we were away a few weeks ago the PC that runs the Borth & Ynyslas Weather Station died. It had been on its last legs for a few months anyway and had been constantly crashing, seemingly unable to cope with the demands of running 24/7, 365 days a year. It...
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