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Summer days encourage us to go to the countryside or the coast. (more…)

Having been brought up in an era when ‘make-do-and-mend‘ had not yet been re-cycled into ‘recycling‘, we are always loathe to throw away things that have apparently outlived their perceived usefulness. (more…)

Despite only having only a tiny garden, we are enjoying growing things in tubs this year. (more…)

Up until this week we have saved rainwater at the back of the house in four bins (with their lids upturned and a hole drilled in the centre) connected in pairs, with two of them further connected to an old recycled water tank. (more…)

Although this is not the actual cat… it looks very similar!

We had already done a full morning’s voluntary work for the animal centre… a dog, three rabbits and a cat had been transported to the vet’s surgery for treatment. (more…)

Today it was very cold, but also sunny, so we took the dog for a run along the beach at Llanelli. At least, she went for a run. We walked.

It is a favourite place for all three of us, but we have been exercising her elsewhere for a few weeks, for various reasons (more…)

Yesterday, we ate some of our own rhubarb from the garden. (more…)

One of the great joys of our sailing years was whenever we were joined by dolphins. There are lots of them off the Welsh Coast, and we had the pleasure of their acrobatic cabarets also in the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay

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It was ‘Bin Day’ today.

We have got our landfill bag down to one smallish black bag per week, and nearly all of that is made up of unnecessary packaging from shops. I spent 15 minutes yesterday trying to extract four printer cartridges from their impermiable and unassailable thick plastic armour. The old cartridges have been saved for recycling, but the plastic had to go into the black bag. (more…)

There are plans to build a new Asda store in Gorseinon.

Having watched a programme on BBC One Wales this morning about the lack of good practice at Asda, I am more than ever convinced that the place to buy food is from local suppliers, like the farm shop and the excellent local butcher who of course knows his sources.

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