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New lens – Canon EF-S 60mm Macro Review

My new lens arrived at the weekend, a couple of days after buying it which, considering the postal strikes was pretty good going. It’s a Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens which I’m hoping will serve as a portrait and general photography lens as well as a macro. On my cropped sensor camera it...

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Capitalising on unexpected traffic

As a freelance website designer, I run various sites of my own, most of which have some form of advertising on them to help cover the running costs. One or two of them do provide some income, all of which helps us with our ‘Simple Life of Luxury’ and making the most of modest means...

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Multi-Bird Roast

Amazingly it is already that time of year when we need to start thinking about Christmas! We’re on the ball as we have already ordered our Christmas Turkey. Last year we had a four-bird roast for our Christmas dinner, but Anna was ill so didn’t really get chance to enjoy it. We have therefore decided...

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More Moths from Ynyslas

October 18th 2009 My Dad was here so we put the trap out to see what we could get. *= New to our trap. 1 Dark Sword Grass * 1 Angle Shades 1 Setaceous Hebrew Character 5 Red-line Quaker 1 Large Wainscot 1 Black Rustic 5 Lunar Underwing 1 Feathered Ranunculus October 21st 2009 A...

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Spidermen

Morgan and his best friend looking pleased with their spiderman faces!!

Autumnal Celebrations – Fireworks and Machynlleth Lantern Parade 7

Autumnal Celebrations – Fireworks and Machynlleth Lantern Parade

The clocks have gone back, the evenings are darker and it feels as though Winter is properly on its way. A depressing time for many, but I really like it. It isn’t very cold at the moment but there’s nothing nicer than snuggling up indoors in front of the fire whilst it’s cold and miserable...

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Aberdovey Windsurf Demo

It was the second of the two annual windsurf demo days at Aberdovey this weekend. Basically, Boardwise and a load of windsurf manufacturers turn up with lots of new boards and sails for us to try. There are usuaully a few celebrities from the windsurf world there too. Despite the fact that it is only...

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The Height of Luxury

As the title of this website states, we are supposed to be living a Simple Life of Luxury here in West Wales. I think we are achieving that. To add to the luxury we are currently fitting a new en-suite shower room to the house. We’ve been planning to do this since building the house...

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My Newt

As well as moths in the moth trap on Sunday we also found a tiny (minute?) little newt next to it. Here he is on Morgan’s hands. As far as the moths go, we had a few in their, including a Dark Sword Grass which was a new one for us.

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Artwork for our wall

We’ve just had some new artwork to brighten up our walls. The first is a 85cmx60cm canvas from a photo I took earlier in the year. The photo was only taken on my compact camera so I wasn’t sure how good it would look blown up to that size, but it looks brilliant. The canvas...