Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
The torn ligaments in my ankle have been driving me nuts. Actually, to be more accurate it’s the inability to get out training that’s driving me nuts so the other day I decided to try an easy session on the turbo trainer. The idea was that if it did hurt too much I could easily...
Now, I may be a bit of an Apple fan boy, but when someone offers me an alternative toy to play with I’m not going to say no. Yesterday, Alan from Bridging the Rural Divide popped around with a lovely looking Samsung Galaxy S2 smart phone. It has the ‘everytrail’ loaded onto it and they...
Morgan has been attending Beavers for a while now. Beavers are the younger version of cubs and scouts and they therefore get up to similar things. The group he goes to is fairly active and he seems to have fun. Unfortunately he misses quite a few sessions as we often have other commitments on the...
It was a good night for the moth trap last night. Overcast, light winds and temperatures only dropping to 13.2ºC. I put the trap out without a sheet again so didn’t have huge numbers in the trap but there was still plenty to go through with 60 moths from 21 different species Here’s the list....
Saturday proved to be a perfect day for beekeeping. Light winds, sunshine and temperatures around 18ºC. We were due to make hive inspections of all of the hives in our apiary and had a bit of re-homing to do on one colony. Pendam – Nuc Box This Nuc box contains an artificial swarm from the...
I’m supposed to be competing in a 1km swim in Lake Bala on Saturday. A few fellow members of the INTR Tri club are coming along too as are some people from swimfit. The swim is organised byt he British Long Distance Swimming Association. I say ‘supposed’ to be doing it because I managed to...
It was our wedding anniversary on Sunday, but as we were camping in Shropshire and riding in the Marshbrook CRC MTB Marathon we decided to have a day out on our own on Monday as well. Anna took the day off work, as did I, and we dropped Morgan off at school. We felt a...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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MTB / Trail Guides / Wales
Traws Eryri Day 2 – Dolgellau to Trawsfynydd
Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
