Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Alan, Anna & Morgan live in West Wales and attempt to make the most out of life. Alan is a freelance website designer, Sports & Exercise Science Lab Technician and full time Dad & husband. Anna works at Aberystwyth University and is a full time Mum & wife.
We had a good day today. Morgan got up earlier than usual, so despite the clock going back we didn’t get any extra time in bed so were up and ready to go quite early. Perfect really as it meant we could attempt some of the new geocahces that have been hidden in and around...
Read more »It’s that time of year again, the clock go back to GMT, the end of BST, the nights are darker, the mornings temporarily lighter and those that suffer from Seasonal Affective Diorder (SAD) start getting grumpy. I actually quite like this time of year, once again things are all changing and those long evenings snuggled...
Read more »Well, it happens to the best of us, eventually we get old, crumble and die, and Transit vans are no exception. This is espeically true when they live on the beach and are full of wet, salty windsurfing gear. My Transit van has been rusting away quite rapidly for a while now and although the...
Read more »I’ve always been a bit of a fan of bonsai trees and used to have a really nice indoor bonsai tree until Robbie, our cat, ate it! I’ve now got a new one though as a present for my duties as best man at Brad and Eloise’s wedding last weekend. The new tree is a...
Read more »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...
Read more »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...
Read more »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...
Read more »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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