Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Well, after much nagging by Anna and Anna’s Mum I finally went to the doctors yesterday to see what they had to say about this cold/flu that I have had for the past couple of months and haven’t been able to shake. Morgan has had a pretty bad cough / cold as well so we...
Read more »Here in Wales and elsewhere in the UK we are all obsessed with the weather… Even a quick read through this weblog will prove this as there seems to be quite a few references to what the weather has been up to. Maybe its because we are quite exposed here and really feel the full...
Read more »I don’t believe it…. I never get colds and rarely get ill, but so far this autumn I seem to have had one really bad cold after another and once again I feel as though I’m dying! The only explanation I can think of is that Morgan catches them at nursery and brings them home...
Read more »Anna’s Mum is visiting us at the moment from the Isle of Man, so Anna and I took the opportunity of having a baby-sitter in the house to look after Morgan and had a rare evening out. It isn’t often that we go out, not only because we have Morgan but also because we can’t...
Read more »That seems to be all we have had lately. Autumn is definately here and winter is just around the corner. It’s that time of year when this part of the world seems to have closed down. The shops that appear in Borth over the summer have gone without a trace, the windows on the sea-side...
Read more »Since Feb 2005 I have been experimenting with making a little income from websites. Not by working on them and building them for people which is one of my ‘proper’ sources of income, but by actually building sites for myself that then generate an income. Now, before you get excited, I’m not making loads, in...
Read more »…the 5th of November… To be honest I almost forgot it was Bonfire Night tonight. Well, it is excusable seeing as we had the community bonfire party last weekend to make the most of people being around at the end of half term. There will of course be a firework display in Borth tonight, but...
Read more »‘Trick or Treat?’, I wonder how many websites and blog entries have that title today? Well it is Halloween so I thought I’d be topical too, but what is it all about? Why do we celebrate Halloween? Why do we dress up in ghoulish costumes and carve out pumpkins? Why do we play ‘trick or...
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