Family Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/family/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Wed, 31 Aug 2022 08:51:58 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg Family Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/family/ 32 32 2696646 Festival Goer https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2022/08/festival-goer/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2022/08/festival-goer/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2022 07:08:00 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=38130 Morgan spent the weekend at the Big Tribute Festival. I don’t think there was much planning involved but he seemed to enjoy it even if he hasn’t really told us much about it. Despite camping in a field with thousands of other festival goers he somehow managed to blag a nice hot tub every morning...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2022/08/festival-goer/feed/ 2 38130 Wildlife with the Oldies https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2022/06/wildlife-with-the-oldies/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2022/06/wildlife-with-the-oldies/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2022 11:23:27 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=37752 The ‘oldies’ (my parents) were here to stay at the weekend. My Dad couldn’t drive so they had an adventure on the trains to get here. We quite like the trains, I don’t think they were that impressed though! For some reason, while my Dad was here he wanted to go the Aberdyfi to go...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2022/06/wildlife-with-the-oldies/feed/ 1 37752 St Fagans and The Great House https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/12/st-fagans-and-the-great-house/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/12/st-fagans-and-the-great-house/#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2021 09:37:22 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=36961 We’ve just got back from a nice weekend away in South Wales. As usual at this time of year we try to combine my birthday, my Mums birthday, my brothers birthday and a Christmas get together into one visit. We usually meet the whole family either in Bristol or somewhere nearby. Covid precautions once again...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/12/st-fagans-and-the-great-house/feed/ 1 36961 A Family Visit and a New Car https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/08/a-family-visit-and-a-new-car/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/08/a-family-visit-and-a-new-car/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2021 10:40:36 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=36655 It’s been a while since we’ve seen any family – other than a flying visit from my parents a week or so after my heart attack. Lockdown and various Covid restrictions have been the main reason for this. We did see some of them this weekend though. My parents and my sister Trudi came to...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/12/queenswood-arboretum/feed/ 1 35439 Christmas 2019 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2019/12/christmas-2019/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2019/12/christmas-2019/#comments Fri, 27 Dec 2019 16:51:24 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=31604 Things aren’t quite so lively at Christmas as they used to be. I don’t think it’s the fact that Anna and I are getting older (and wiser) as we are just as excited as always (well, I am anyway!) but now that Morgan is a grumpy teenager things are just a little more laid back...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2019/07/fun-in-the-canoe/feed/ 0 30596 65th Birthday at Bluestone https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/12/65th-birthday-bluestone/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/12/65th-birthday-bluestone/#comments Tue, 12 Dec 2017 09:46:27 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=25583 It was my Mum’s 65th birthday on Friday so rather than have a traditional birthday party we all got together at Bluestone in Pembrokeshire. When I say all, that’s her descendant family – Children, Grand-children and Great Grand-children. There were a couple of us missing due to work commitments but even without Jennie and Megan...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/12/65th-birthday-bluestone/feed/ 1 25583 Barmouth Bridge 150th Anniversary Fireworks https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/10/barmouth-bridge-150th-anniversary-fireworks/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/10/barmouth-bridge-150th-anniversary-fireworks/#comments Sun, 15 Oct 2017 08:15:38 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=25297 This week saw the 150th Anniversary of the Barmouth Bridge. The town council were hosting a weekend of activities and events to celebrate the anniversary with the highlight being a themed laser and firework extravaganza centred on the harbour and bridge. The Machynlleth firework display and lantern parade, which we’ve being going to for the...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/10/barmouth-bridge-150th-anniversary-fireworks/feed/ 1 25297 Cross Biking in the Hills of Mid West Wales https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/12/cross-biking-hills-mid-west-wales/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/12/cross-biking-hills-mid-west-wales/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2016 08:36:51 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=23608 I like to do my best to fill the time between Christmas and New Year with activities and this year the weather seems to have been helping. Yesterday was cloudy and cold but dry at least. After checking the surf which was good I had to choose between surfing, cross biking, surf-skiing or something else....

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