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Tales from a down-shifted family
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Tagged: Isle of Man

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Isle of Man 2009

We’ve just got back from a nice holiday on the Isle of Man. I hadn’t been there in the summer before and I can safely say its just the same as in the autumn, mainly grey and wet with an ocassional view of the sun! We went over for Rebeeca and Petes wedding and as...

Arboretum – That is where you go to see ducks isn’t it? 3

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Arboretum – That is where you go to see ducks isn’t it?

It has been a long standing joke in our family that until I was quite old I didn’t realise that Arboretums are where you go to look at trees, I always thought it was where you go to looks at ducks! There is some reasoning behind all of this in that the arboretum on the...

Geocaching on the Isle of Man 3

General

Geocaching on the Isle of Man

We’ve just got back from a trip to the Isle of Man and as we flew over rather than going on the boat I didn’t have any windsurfing kit with me so we did lots of geocaching instead. The Assume Nothing series by Happy Humphrey kept us busy as did a few other caches. El...

Geocaching on the Isle of Man – Assume Nothing 3

Geocaching / Wales

Geocaching on the Isle of Man – Assume Nothing

Happy Humphrey, a prolific geocache hider on the Isle of Man certainly kept us busy on our recent trip to the Island, especially with a few attempts on his ‘Assume Nothing IOM’ series. We should have started at the beginning really as we DNF’d (Did not Find) our first attempts on number 2 and number...