Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Well, the weekend dawned dry and windless so I planned to go geocaching. I woke at 5am on Saturday morning so headed off early which allowed me to do the bulk of the uphill section before things warmed up. I drove to Dinas Mawwdwy and onto Cwm Cywarch where I parked up, put my boots...
Every cloud has a silver lining I guess.. I have been planning to hide some geocaches in some nearby hills where caches were a little thin on the ground for a few months now. I’d been waiting for the right weather to spend a day up there with Steve hiding the caches and it looked...
We had a nice early start yesterday, Impi arrived at 5.30 am to catch the tide and the wind and we were on the water not long after. The wind was a little fickle to start with but filled in and the water flattened off for some amazing speed runs on our big kit. Despite...
Whilst working in the garden the other day I spotted a geocacher finding my ‘On the Bog’ cache so had a little chat with him. he was an expat now living in America but was back here in Borth visiting family. It was good to see someone finding my cache, which as usual with this...
We had a nice day yesterday. First we took Morgan swimming, which is something we have neglected to do for ages. He loved it and got on really well. He was quite happy floating around with his armbands on and climbing onto the various floats that were scattered around the pool.He was reluctant to get...
Friday and Saturday were as good as they get here… Friday afternoon saw 30-40 knot winds, glorious sunshine and some big waves. I was out windsurfing from the beach just in front of our house and having a whale of a time. To start with I was on my own and playing it fairly safe...
Living out here in the sticks does mean that we don’t necessarily see various members of our family as often as we would otherwise. However, living by the sea does mean that as soon as the sun comes out and the weather warms up they suddenly all want to visit us!! My parents were here...
It’s not often that anything news-worthy happens around here, but there was an armed police raid in Borth last night. We knew nothing of it but apparently there were around 20 police officers including dog handlers, polic in full riot gear and even some armed police called to a house in Borth to arrest a...
Sometime website development can be very frustrating, and as a freelance web developer with few people to turn to when I come across a problem I really get to experience the highs and lows. Just the other day whilst working on a fairly complex project that I have on at the moment I came across...
Well, I have just been out in my lunchbreak to get some potty training supplies incase Morgan decides that this really in the real thing. I got some ‘big boy’ pants (7 for £1.50 from Bwise), some stickers and a new spiderman as a present (and because Daddy stood on the last on enad broke...
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