Author: Alan Cole

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Holiday to Dorset – Fossil Hunting in Charmouth

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]uesday already and our first full day in Dorset. One of the main reasons for coming here was to go fossil hunting, so we wasted no time and planned a day at Charmouth today to find some fossils. I started the day with an early morning run into Weymouth and back along some of the...

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Osprey Sprint Triathlon, Portland – Race Report

The Osprey Sprint Triathlon, Portland – Race two of the year for me and as I’ve been trying to tell everyone, I’m not taking things quite so seriously this year. I’m still training fairly well and in that respect there had been nothing wrong with my preparation. I’m not however doing things to quite the...

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Holiday to Dorset – The Journey South

After a weekend at my parents house for Easter we spent most of Easter Monday heading south towards Dorset. Cerne Abbas Giant We took quite a random route to get there and stopped off at Cerne Abbas to take a look at the giant there which Morgan found quite amusing. We had a nice picnic...

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Holiday to Dorset – En Route to Portland

It may only be April, but it was time for our family holiday to Portland in Dorset. Why Portland in Dorset? Well, I was planning on competing in what looked like a nice sprint distance triathlon there on Sunday 12th, and it was the area that I studied for for PhD. looking at the palaeoecology...

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Aloe Vera Flower

What started as a tiny little Aloe Vera plant about 18 months ago has turned into a monster. It’s huge, looking healthy and has now produced a pretty impressive looking flower spike. It’s been living in the conservatory, but I think I might have to propagate some baby plants from it soon and try some...

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Garmin Auto Sleep Detection

Good news… Not only is my new Garmin Fenix 3 Sapphire Performer Bundle on its way to me but Garmin have introduced Auto-Sleep Detection to it as well. I thought I’d have to wait a while to actually get the watch as it has been proving difficult for Garmin to get hold of enough Sapphire...

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Broken iPhone 5s

It was time to move up in the world and upgrade my iPhone 4 to a nice new (2nd hand) iPhone 5s. I didn’t used to be one for mobile phones but now that my iPad was getting a bit long in the tooth I was tending to use my phone more and more for keeping up to date whilst sat at home. What with that, the fact that Morgan was about to buy an iPad mini 2 and Anna has a works iPad Air, I was going to

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Easter Bunny Clues

Even though we were away visiting family in South Gloucestershire it seems as though the Easter Bunny had us under surveillance and managed to visit and leave clues for Morgan’s Easter egg hunt while he slept last night. In addition to the eggs

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More Bargains with Quidco

I took the plunge the other day and ordered the Garmin Fenix 3 watch that I’ve been wanting for a while to replace my Forerunner 910XT. It’s a ridiculous amount of money for a watch, especially as I wanted the Sapphire Glass version with the new ‘Run’ Heart Rate Monitor Strap, but it’s nice to treat…