A Simple Life of Luxury

Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means

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Geocaching – Llansteffan

It’s about time I caught up with some blogging here, but we have been so busy recently that writing about what we’ve been doing just gets in the way of DOING. However, one thing we have been doing a little bit of is geocaching. For those of you who don’t know what it is, basically...

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Stag do

Well, it was actually more fun than I had expected. Brad’s weding was a week away, I was Best man and so we had decided upon an activity weekend for the stag do. We were staying in a hostel and ‘Mexican Bar’ just outside of Carmarthen and had booked up to go paintballing and quad...

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He he he!

I couldn’t help but laugh!  I know Al is getting on a bit these days but I was looking at some photos Eloise’s brother has posted on flickr.com and there is one of Al with Brad just before the ceremony and the title fo the photo is ‘Brad and father’!!!!  I know Al was nervous but...

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Best man

Well, for once Alan really was the best man!…..at his brothers wedding last weekend.  I have to say he did a really good job and Brad had a good stag weekend the weekend before and got to the wedding in plenty of time.  Al was dreading the speech but when it came to it it went really...

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Mmm Ice Cream

We’ve always known Morgan likes Ice Cream, and here he is tucking into one at Silverdale on our recent holiday to the Isle of Man.

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Holiday’s over and done with for another year!

Well, we’ve been on holiday and now it’s back to work the same as before. We had a lovely time on the Isle of Man. My mum arranged a family BBQ on my birthday so we got to see all the family in one go rather than spending the whole holiday going from house to...

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Holidays

Woohoo… Our holiday is nearly here. 🙂 And well deserved it is too this year.

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Harvey’s Wedding

It’s about time someone made a decent man of him, and tomorrow the lovely Siwan is doing just that. Harvey (my Best Man) is finally tying the knot in Aberystwyth and Anna and I shall be there to witness it. All the best to the pair of you… We’re looking forward to sharing the day...

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Scorchio

We might not be hitting the same sort of temperatures here as other parts of the UK, but so far today in the shade we have hit 33.7ºC which is more than hot enough for me!

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Anniversary in Aberaeron

It was our 2nd wedding anniversary yesterday, so we took the day off and headed down the coast to Aberaeron for lunch and an ice-cream by the harbour. It seems mean to leave Morgan in nursery and have a day to oursleves, but once every now and then it is quite nice and it makes...