Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
The summer is drawing to an end, and I’m looking forward to a bit of a rest from hard core structured triathlon training too. The last couple of sessions have felt fairly autumnal and there is definitely a change in the air. I was out swimming in Aberystwyth yesterday evening in what turned out to be glorious conditions. It...
We have another guest post for you today, all about down-shifting a family holiday abroad with ways to save money and make the most of your resources. When you think about a holiday, what springs to mind? Do you picture yourself rushing from one tourist attraction to another? Are you jammed onto a crowded beach?...
Yesterday was the end of summer! The last day of the school holidays and all of a sudden the little area of Borth and Ynyslas where we live has transformed. The holiday-makers have all gone, the place seems deserted, we have our sleepy little village back to ourselves and everything is lovely and peaceful. Card image from...
We had our first visit from a FERA bee inspector yesterday. There has been a recent case of American Foulbrood in the area. American foulbrood (AFB), is a highly infectious and destructive bee disease caused by the spore- forming Paenibacillus larvae ssp. larvae. It is widespread and a huge problem in America, but thankfully fairly rare here in...
It’s Anna’s birthday today and considering the fact that I’ve been doing so much baking recently I thought it would be remiss of me not to bake a nice big birthday cake for her. It would be an understatement to say that she likes chocolate so the only option for a birthday cake for Anna...
Another busy Sunday for us but a good day again. I started with my usual run and swim in Machynlleth. Both were just a little longer than last week with 12x 90 second effort on the run rather than 10 and 24x 100m in the pool with every 3rd one hard rather than 20x 100m with...
With Anna’s Mum here and my parents here we feel as though we should get out and do things. Trouble is they aren’t really up to anything too strenuous and we can’t all fit in one car so we are fairly limited to local easy activities – and of course eating lots of cakes at...
We have a house full again at the moment which means lots of bed juggling to fit everyone in. Pat (Anna’s Mum) is in Morgans bedroom with the guinea pigs, My parents are in our room, Morgan is on a camp bed in the beach Room and this time, rather than ‘glamping in the garden‘...
Morgan and I stopped off on our daily bike ride around Ynyslas to pick some fruit. On the menu today were big juicy blackberries and there were plenty of them. They’ve now been washed and are ready for consumption. So we have a kitchen full of freshly foraged free food ready for the freezer. Not...
We put the moth trap out last night and then had a nice surprise as there were fireworks at the caravan park so we stood in the garden watching the fireworks whilst moths flew around the trap and bats swooped by to eat them. It was a lovely evening out there, if a little chilly now, although temperatures...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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