Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
As part of our few days away, we spent and afternoon visiting Hurst Castle with Jasper, Fiona, Pippa and Joe. We drive to Keyhaven which is a nice south coast boating village and caught the Hurst Castle ferry out to the castle. We’re not really into the history of such things but still had fun...
We’ve just got back from a few days away. We’re not having a ‘proper’ holiday this year so we decided to mix a visit to friends and family with a bit of a break and headed off on Thursday morning. After a quick stop at my brothers garage in Bristol for some new tyres for...
As part of our few days away we went for a little walk in the New Forest, from Boldre Church. Morgan was on his bike (most of the time whilst Jasper, Fiona, Anna and I walked in a little circuit around the forest. Jack the dog was with us too. Morgan did OK on his...
The bees that we have on loan seem to be happy. I’ve taken a look at the hive and there always seems to be a bit of activity around it and there are certainly more bees in the garden. The field behind us is full of clover at the moment too so hopefully they are...
The weather here was terrible for the week of the Big Butterfly Count. Lots of rain, quite a bit of wind and we hardly saw the sun. Thankfully the sun did come out a little on Sunday 1st August and Morgan and I finally had chance to spend 15 minutes in the garden counting butterflies....
Whilst cleaning my 2009 Commencal Meta 5.5 bike lately I’ve noticed some cracks in a odd place on the frame. The cracks appear to be radiating out from a drainage whole on a brace between the two sides of the main rear swing-arm. I’ve circled the drainage hole in the image below. I’m not sure...
Not MORE courgettes!!!
This certainly isn’t my style of windsurfing but its pretty clever all the same. Light wind freestyle windsurf dancing, with Caesar Finies.
I haven’t been running much lately. I did a bit just before competing in a Triathlon back in May, but very little since. However, I can’t swim at the moment thanks to injured ribs, so last night rather than drive into Aberystwyth just for a circuit training session I decided to go for a run instead. I...
Our courgette glut continues and we seem to have been eating courgettes everyday – I hope they’re good for us! As well as courgettes in almost every dish you can think of we’ve had nice courgette salads, courgette ratatouille, roasted courgettes, courgette cake and chocolate courgette cake and now we’ve tried ‘courgette fritters’ ala Jamie...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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