Lifestyle Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/lifestyle/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Tue, 05 Aug 2025 07:27:17 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg Lifestyle Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/lifestyle/ 32 32 2696646 A New Hyundai – Kona Electric vs Ioniq 5 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2025/08/a-new-hyundai-kona-electric-vs-ioniq-5/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2025/08/a-new-hyundai-kona-electric-vs-ioniq-5/#comments Sun, 10 Aug 2025 10:03:24 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=46389 The lease on our Hyundai Kona Electric is due to end soon, so it was time to start looking for a replacement. There isn’t a huge amount of choice in Aberystwyth, and since we’ve loved the Kona, it made sense to stick with what we knew. We did research a few other options, but nothing...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2025/08/a-new-hyundai-kona-electric-vs-ioniq-5/feed/ 3 46389 Robot Vacuum Cleaner https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/10/robot-vacuum-cleaner/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/10/robot-vacuum-cleaner/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2020 09:42:28 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=34750 Who’d have thought that so my fun could be derived from a robot vacuum cleaner? We were a little sceptical about it’s abilities at first, especially as we bought one of the less expensive ones. However, so far it has impressed. We gave it quite a good workout as well having not vacuumed for a...

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