Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I’ve finally caught up with the rest of the Mac World by upgrading my iMac to run the latest Apple operating system Mountain Lion (OX 10.8). I had several reasons for waiting so long to do so. First was the fact that Snow Leopard (OS 10.6) was running perfectly well on my machine. I was...
This is what happens when you leave a bright red serviette in your pocket and then wash your trousers! Well done Al…better ask Father Christmas for a new pair of jeans!
I don’t know if it’s just us, but our set top Freeview Digiboxes don’t seem to last that long. We don’t have Sky or anything like that here, just a Freeview box with a Hard Drive for recording TV shows. The first one we had years ago was Digihome Freeview box and we loved it....
Another night and yet another Christmas meal, a curry this time in the Taj Mahal in Machynlleth with the Cerist Triathlon Club. I’m not actually a member of the club but I do know lots of them and train with them on a Sunday morning so decided to head along to their Xmas dinner. The...
Keeping the Christmas spirit, here’s a photo of Morgan in Santas Grotto last week.
Maybe ‘all’ of my problems is a slight exaggeration but we’d been gradually having various home network issues here. Our home computer network isn’t that complicated but it is convenient to have it all up and running as it should do. We have a broadband connection wired from the phone line to a Belkin router....
Just to keep us in the Christmas spirit here’s a photo of our Christmassy light shade. Pretty hey!
The Christmas festivities continue here. We’ve already had a birthday meal for my Mum’s 60th last week and a Christmas Carvery with my family. Last night we had a another celebratory meal, this time with the Aberystwyth Beekeepers Association. It was also my birthday yesterday so it doubled as a birthday meal as well. We...
Things aren’t looking good on the bee front. They didn’t do too well over the summer – we lost some swarms, one colony straved to death and other colonies failed to re-queen so we went into the winter with just one strong colony and one weak colony. I’ve just been out to feed them and...
The lights are up, so here’s the obligatory shot of the tree… Xmas is coming!!!
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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