Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
A house full of rowdy, over-excited 6 year olds? No thanks, we’re not that silly! It was Morgan’s birthday last week, during half term so we waited until this week to have his party and decided to let the good people at Play Planet in Llandre organise most of it for us. Play Planet is...
It was another bright sunny day here for the builders so work has been progressing well. They’ve started on the brickwork and have got on well with it having built both the internal and external walls up to what will be floor level. The bricks seem to match nicely with those on the house so...
In February it was my Birthday and I had a sleepover with James and Cameron. I got a power kite from Mummy and Daddy and it looks good. I’ll need to practice if I want to fly it well though. It was parents evening at school so Mummy and Daddy went in to see my...
Well, the iPad 2 has been officially launched and will be out in the UK later in March. We’ve had an iPad since Christmas now and use it every day. The whole family uses it and we love it. I’ve already written an iPad review so won’t go into what we use it for here...
Work progressed well with our new conservatory yesterday. We’re having it built by Mid Wales Windows, who weren’t supposed to be starting until next week. They phone us up a couple of days ago asking if they could start this week so we said yes. They arrived as promised on Wednesday morning to a perfect...
And so the annual appearance of a ‘digger in the garden’ begins. Hopefully it won’t make too much of a mess of my nicely manicured lawn this year as they shouldn’t need to go anywhere other than the area around where the new conservatory will be.
The weather has been good for work on the Borth Sea Defence Scheme. We have had a couple of really high tides over the last week or so but fortunately the weather was calm so it didn’t cause too many problems. The contractors did place some large rocks around the area that they park the...
February 27th dawned grey damp and windy, but the Ystwyth-MTB club had a ‘proper wilderness’ ride on the agenda. Things weren’t looking too promising as we drove to meet in Machynlleth. The Tarren ridge that we were supposed to be riding was shrouded in dark grey clouds and didn’t look too inviting. Dave, John, Pete,...
As a self-employed freelance website designer I don’t have a company pension plan so have been constantly squirrelling money away in a cash ISA which acts as my retirement fund.  Keeping ourselves true to the name of this weblog and  living a ‘Simple Life of Luxury’ where we work to live rather then live to...
It was Morgans 6th Birthday yesterday – Yep, 6 already! He had plenty of present as usual, a 1m Ozone Imp power kite from us, lots of Club Penguin things, a Ben 10 game, some Lego and a Harry Potter costume which he seems to have been living in ever since. We popped down to...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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