Summer Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/summer/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Thu, 29 Jul 2021 09:21:09 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg Summer Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/summer/ 32 32 2696646 Summertime Continues https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/07/summertime-continues/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/07/summertime-continues/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2021 09:21:02 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=36627 Summer has continued here in West Wales. For a start, according to the weather station we are currently at 17 days and counting without rain. We also hit a maximum temperature for the year of 31.1ºC recently. We could do with some rain though just for the sake of the new lawn. Talking of the...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/07/summertime-continues/feed/ 1 36627 Tropical Windsurf https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/07/tropical-windsurf/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/07/tropical-windsurf/#respond Mon, 09 Jul 2018 16:02:24 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=26914 Another good day at the office here. Topped off with a nice surprise as a decent sea breeze filled in. Barefoot and board-shorts once again and this time on board my big windsurf kit too. I actually rigged far too big really as I was overpowered with my 6.7m sail most of the time. I...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/07/tropical-windsurf/feed/ 0 26914 Summer Sailing at Home https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/07/summer-sailing-home/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/07/summer-sailing-home/#respond Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:55:14 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=24837 After a busy weekend away in North Wales Surf Skiing, Mountain Biking and Running along the Coast Path it was nice to be back at home. The busyness continued of course and summer was being kind to us. Wall to wall sunshine on Monday had me out mowing the lawn and gardening once the indoor...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/07/summer-sailing-home/feed/ 0 24837 Adventures in North Wales https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/07/adventures-north-wales/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/07/adventures-north-wales/#respond Sun, 23 Jul 2017 16:50:47 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=24818 Surf Skiing in Conwy I arranged to meet some fellow surf-skiers in Conwy on Saturday. I thought I could make a weekend of it. Surf Ski somewhere a little different for a change, do some mountain biking and then sleepover in the camper and continue my Coast Path run project on the Sunday. The Facebook...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/07/adventures-north-wales/feed/ 0 24818 Beehaving in the Garden https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/07/beehaving-in-the-garden/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/07/beehaving-in-the-garden/#respond Wed, 19 Jul 2017 06:24:04 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=24762 ‘Beehaving’? If you remember from my last post about the bees they had been ‘mis-beehaving’. I had performed an artificial split only for the half without the queen to be a little lax in creating a queen cell while the haf with the queen swarmed anyway leaving no queen cell behind. I think my actions have helped...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/07/beehaving-in-the-garden/feed/ 0 24762 Surf Skiing in the Sunshine https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/07/surf-skiiing-sunshine/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/07/surf-skiiing-sunshine/#respond Tue, 18 Jul 2017 06:19:21 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=24754 It looks as though my plan to get out as often as possible in as wide a range of conditions as possible on my surf ski has worked. Monday was a gorgeous day for some surf skiiing in the sunshine. The sea was a little choppy with a small swell but I felt quite at...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/07/surf-skiiing-sunshine/feed/ 0 24754 Summer Surf https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/06/summer-surf/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/06/summer-surf/#respond Sat, 04 Jun 2016 03:23:28 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=22170 Summer continues and Friday brought with it not only more wall-to-wall sunshine and temperatures in the high teens but also some summer surf. So, after a short session on the turbo trainer and lots and lots of household chores we (Morgan and I) headed over to the beach form a summertime surf. We were due...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/06/summer-surf/feed/ 0 22170 Summer Garden https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/07/summer-garden/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/07/summer-garden/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:00:16 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=17294 Shame a few more flowers weren’t out for our garden party last weekend, but now that the sun is out and summer is here, the garden seems to have entered a pink and purple mode along with LOADS of Marguerites along the fence. It’s looking nice out there today.

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/07/summer-garden/feed/ 1 17294 Good Morning Summer https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/05/good-morning-summer/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/05/good-morning-summer/#comments Wed, 14 May 2014 04:50:46 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=16606 The weather has changed and Summer is here – for the time being at least.

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/05/good-morning-summer/feed/ 1 16606 Day 8 of Summer – It’s the weekend! https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/07/day-8-of-summer-its-the-weekend/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/07/day-8-of-summer-its-the-weekend/#comments Sun, 14 Jul 2013 13:13:20 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=14030 The weekend was here and the summer continues. Temperatures here on Saturday made it just above 20°C again with a maximum of 21.2°C – just about perfect as far as we are concerned and as usual we had a busy day making the most of it. I started the day going out for the cycle...

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