Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
The first potatoes we planted back in March were looking a little less than happy. The main crop potatoes are looking fin and about to flower, but the earlies never flowered and had started to look a little sorry for themselves. I decided therefore to empty out one of the bags to day to see...
I’ve been doing more road biking than mountain biking recently. However, judging by this video I’ve been doing it all wrong. I can’t even do these things on my mountain bike! Mind you, when I lived in Bristol we did cycle down the big rock slab seen in the video – glad to see it’s...
We put the moth trap out a couple of times over the weekend and got quite a few moths in the trap, but nothing new. The average seems to be around about 60-80 moths at the moment from approximately 25 species. Last night looked like a good night so I put the trap out again...
We had a good afternoon at Morgan’s schools Sports Day. It wasn’t quite sunny but it was dry and the kids all seemed to enjoy themselves. For some reason the red team (Gogerddan) have won for the past few years but at last there was a turn around and the green team (Trawsgoed) won by...
Yesterday was a good day, packed full of activities. I started off fairly early, sorting, counting and recording the contents of the moth trap. Nothing unusual in there and no new species, but 21 different species and 60 moths in total. As my ID skills improve I’m getting quicker at going through the contents of...
Morgan and I have just finished doing our RSPB Make Your Nature Count survey. We spent an enjoyable hour sat there watching the garden and chatting about the birds that we saw. It’s easy to do as all you have to do is record the highest number of each species you see at any one...
The wind this year has been terrible so I’ve hardly been windsurfing. I nearly managed a session on Thursday night but the wind dropped so I blamed the lack of wind on the “curse of the new kit“. Since then I’ve had a little more luck. On Friday I managed an nice late afternoon windsurf...
Morgan has suddenly decided that he wants to learn to surf. I had been careful not to push him too much towards surfing, but this is of course great news. He has a wetsuit and so far I’ve been taking him out using one of my ‘proper’ surfboards but I may well have to get...
I moved the moth trap away from the Lilac last night and had a much more manageable catch which didn’t take long to go through: 2x White Ermine 1x Eyed Hawkmoth 1x Oligia sp. 2x Common Marbled Carpet 2x Broom Moth 3x Heart and Dart 12x Flame Shoulder 3x Setaceous Hebrew Character 10x Small Square-spot...
I’ve been using Dropbox for a while as a really useful way of sharing files with clients, friends and family. It’s very clever in the way it works with a nice little menu item on my computer that links directly to my local dropbox folder. Anything I put in that folder get automatically synced to...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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