Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
With summer in full swing and what looked like the best day of the week weather-wise it seemed a shame to work all day while the sun was shining so Anna and I arranged to finish at 3pm collect Morgan from school and then head to the beach. It would have been nice to go...
It was Father’s Day on Sunday and as usual I started my day with some training. First a nice bike ride with Owain and Bedwyr. We met at Machynlleth Leisure Centre and headed out in the grey, blustery conditions to Cemaes Road and then on past Bedwyr’s house to the Brigands Inn roundabout where we...
With Anna away for work on the Isle of Man, it was left to me to run Scouts on my own this week. Thankfully it was an easy session as we were taking them to the woods just outside Llanfarian for a woodland crafts evening with Tir Coed. This meant that there were a couple...
This years summer of geocaching souvenir is a series of ‘Road Trip’ souvenirs. There are six souvenirs to collect in total, with each one becoming active at different times throughout the summer. The Geocaching Road Trip runs between June 19th and September 2nd during which time we have to find five souvenirs to unlock a...
If you’re going to make a chocolate mug cake in the microwave then you may as well use a proper mug… I knew that ridiculous Sports Direct Mug would come in handy one day. Giant Mug Cake I think I used the same recipe as Anna usually uses, but she divides it between three mugs,...
Another lovely summer’s day here and although I have work to do in both the garden and the new shed I decided that not all sunny days should be spent doing outside chores and opted for some ‘recreation’ instead. After a short 25 mile bike ride I headed into Borth with my Stand-up-Paddleboard. I’d packed...
Whilst on an open water swim session on Monday here at Ynyslas the water was clearer than usual so I was actually able to see the seabed. I was also able to see lots of large Spider Crabs roaming around out there. The larger ones seemed to be wandering around on the sand on their...
A rain, miserable Saturday, what should we do? How about attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the largest number of people learning to write Android smartphone applications at the same time! Yep, that’s what we did. The BCS chartered institute for IT were inviting individual and families with children over the age of...
Not quite fully summer yet but the garden is looking nice this morning and our new shed fits in well. It would look even nicer if we could hide the telegraph poles.
We spent a nice evening courtesy of Aber Kayakers messing about on the water with the Scouts on Friday. The hot humid weather with thunderstorms threatening was just perfect and the gravel pits in Cwm Rheidol certainly looked inviting..As usual there was a fair bit of time spent sorting the Scouts out with buoyancy aids,...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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