Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Our Santa Christmas Cake is ready. Anna’s been busy playing in the band recently, concerts here, concerts there and various fund-raising sessions at Morrisons, so whilst she was out playing a concert to the Llanafan WI on what was a very wet Saturday afternoon, Morgan and I set about decorating our Christmas cake. I had...
Check this artificial wave out, Kelly Slater, 11 time World Surf League Champion and his partners have built what is probably the best man-made wave ever. Artificial wave We have a fairly decent artificial wave just up the road at Surf Snowdonia. However, when we went there it wasn’t working properly and it has had more than it’s...
We have some new inhabitants in the form of Golden Pencilfish in our Aquascape. I’ve been wanting a school of fish in there for a while and had toyed with the idea of Rummy nosed-tetras, but in the end decided that Golden Pencilfish (Nannostomus beckfordi), also known as Beckfords Pencilfish would be nice and a...
We seem to have had a bit of a spree on white goods lately. This might not be the most exciting of blog posts, but mentioning new purchases has proved useful in the past because when they go wrong or break down we turn to this website to see how long we’ve had them, so...
I’m either having a slow recovery from my cold, or I’m just being plain lazy. Getting back into it After trying to get back into some training last week after having had a cold, I did OK for a few days but then over the weekend fell off the rails a bit again. Thursday’s swim...
I don’t know if being 45 entitles me to become a grumpy old man, but it was my birthday last week, I was 45 and if this past week is anything to go by then I think it does. Opticians First up I had my usual bi-annual eye test. I knew that my eyesight was...
Do you like my Christmas Toenails? I know that in my post about Christmas decorations yesterday I promised you Christmas cake today, but I’ve decided to leave that post until I’ve decorated the second cake, so you’ll have to make do with Christmas toenails today instead – Cake, Toenails? Not quite the same I know,...
I’ve heard quite a bit about shaving subscriptions lately as Harry’s are always advertising on the various podcasts that I listen to. The idea sounded good, but maybe I was being taken in by the advertising. According to the adverts, with these shaving subscriptions, you get a nice razor handle in your first package of the subscription...
Up go the Christmas decorations, so “It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas”!!! Christmas Decorations After my birthday ‘celebrations’ yesterday it was time to put up the Christmas decorations. I wouldn’t say it was quite a tradition, but we do like to wait until my birthday is over with before the Christmas decorations go up. First though...
Walking in the rain in Snowdonia is one thing, but the conditions yesterday were ridiculous! It was my birthday on Friday so rather than just go out for drinks or a meal, or as we usually do just stay at home and do nothing, I came up with the idea of getting a few friends together...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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