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The Joys of Freelance Website Design

Regular readers of this blog will know that one of the key factors that allow me to live a ‘Simple Life of Luxury‘ is the fact that I chose to turn my back on my geology training and become a freelance website designer. I guess there was never a conscious decision to become a website...

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Professional Photo

There was a professional photographer in Aberystwyth the other day taking childrens portraits in Somerfield, so Anna took Morgan in to have his photo taken… Apparently most other parents had dressed their children up in their best clothes, washed them thoroughly and combed their hair etc… We forgot about such things so Morgan turned up...

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Surf Competition Borth, Wales

Today was the day of the 2007 Borth Masters surf contest, and the Gods were on our side. The sun came out, plenty of people turned up and best of all the surf was ‘going off’. Some of the biggest cleanest surf I’ve seen at the lifeboat station in Borth for a long time. I...

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Snow and Surf in Wales

The snow arrived as promised. It was pretty wild here this morning with blizzard conditions, but Morgan and I went out to play in it anyway… I’ll post some photos of that later. I then did some work and headed off to the hills with Sarah (from next door) around lunch time. We went to...

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Record Low ‘Feels Like’ Temperature

It was pretty cold this morning, and although the actual temperature only dropped to -4.8ºC, the ‘Feels Like Temperature’ which is calculated by taking into account the actual temperature, the humidity and the wind strength reached an all time low of -11.2ºC at 7.55am… That could be be beaten tomorrow though! The image is a...

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The first flowers of 2007

This is a post for Anna’s mum and all you phenologists out there. We may be heading for some snow and a bit of a cold snap, but our Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris) has just started flowering. Apparently it is meant to flower between March and June, so it must be a little confused!

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Snow on the way for Wales.

Things are getting a little colder, -4.8ºC here last night and it looks as though there is some significant snow on the way overnight tonight and into tomorrow morning. The Borth and Ynyslas live weather station has been displaying its little ‘snow is on the way icon’ since last night. It always amazes me how...

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Good ol’ Morgan – 18-24month developmental check.

I had to post and have a little boast about my clever little boy. He had his 18-24 month check yesterday (I was brave and let Alan handle it while I was at work!). Morgan impressed the health visitor and even Alan in some parts by the sound of it. I’m sure a lot of...

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Too much stuff!

How do we manage it!!?? Since Alan has got rid of the van he has had to find somewhere to keep all the stuff the van held (and believe me there was a lot of stuff in that old rusty toybox!). Anyway, we bought a shed with idea being to move some stuff out of...