Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
As the winter fades away and the spring sun begins to warm our days, it’s time to start thinking about getting the garden ready for the new season. There is something so satisfying about a well-maintained garden. Not only does it make our outdoor space look beautiful, but it also provides a place of solace...
Much of the weekend was spent creating what will hopefully become a little woodland thanks to a whole load of free trees. Well, it’ll be more of an unruly hedge than a woodland if we’re honest. Free Trees Thanks to the Make Room for Nature scheme run by the Woodlands Trust Cymru we had 40...
Anna recently drew my attention to a post on the ‘Make Room for Nature’ Facebook Group saying: Spent a lovely day off taking Woodland Trust Cymru and Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust staff around a few of last year’s tree-planting sites If you’d like anything from 1 to 300 native trees to help tackle climate change and...
It’s that time of year again to hibernation Harriet and Hector our robot lawn mowers. Once again they’ve been doing a sterling job whatever the weather. The mild autumn means they’ve been out a little longer than expected as the grass has still been growing. It’s getting cooler now though, the days are short and...
After the winds of Saturday, Sunday dawned clear and fairly still. Perfect weather for pottering in the garden. Morning Run There was a bit of exercise to do first so I headed off for a run along the River Leri and then back along the beach. Nothing too exciting and not too far or too...
After a couple of Days with Steve and Biddy – first in Ironbridge and then at the Commonwealth Games, we spent another night at theirs and then had to head our separate ways. Anna was off to the Isle of Man to visit her Mum so I dropped her at the station so that she...
I know my last post was all about the fact that the bees are in the midst of a honey flow. However, despite the flowers galore in the garden they seem to be going elsewhere for their forage. I’m not complaining of course, I don’t mind where they get it from if they are doing...
Things are growing well in the garden. It might not look that colourful at first glance but a closer inspection reveals lots of delicate little flowers at the moment.
We do like to ‘reduce, re-use, recycle’ where we can. I think we can safely say we achieved this with our log store. It had started life as a shed. The shed had been moved several times and re-purposed as another shed for things of ever decreasing importance. Once it became a little too ‘airy’...
It’s all gone to pinks and purples in the garden now. So, I thought it was time to get up close and purple with some of the flowers! I checked in on the bees today too and all seems well. They are of course loving the chives at the moment.
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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