Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I seem to have been out of sync with the wind lately. It’s been promising much all week with some almost there NE’s in the morning and then plenty of wind around school run time only for it to drop as soon as I had chance to get on the water. I’d tried to get...
I don’t know if it’s just that I’m noticing them more this year but I’ve just found another caterpillar crawling across the path. This one looks like the larvae of a Drinker Moth to me.
I haven’t done any long bike rides for years. In fact we’re talking 20 years plus since I did anything over about 35 miles. Monday was a gorgeous day, warm, dry and sunny. I was on top of work (or didn’t have much on to be more precise) so set off on a nice little...
Amazon.co.uk Widgets Continuing my research and plans to start beekeeping, I attended a meeting of the Aberystwyth & District Beekeepers Association on Sunday. It was a gorgeous day for it, hot sunny and still. We met at a members house where she has a number of beehives – probably abut 15 , plus chickens, geese,...
I’ve just found a little caterpillar on the honeysuckle, looking for all the world like a little twig. Perfect camouflage, so much so that he almost got pruned along with the other dead twigs. Having looked through some books, it looks most likely to be the caterpillar of an Engrailed Moth.
I haven’t done much photography lately, other than recording things such as moths and progress in the garden. It was therefore nice to sell one of my photos of Lake Vyrnwy as a Canvas print last week. I hadn’t been trying to sell the photos, they had simply been posted on this weblog which then...
The question is, should I spend lots of money on a new road bike or should I not earn that money in the first place by working less and spend the time training instead? What would be the most beneficial, faster times due to a better bike, or faster times because I’ve spent more time...
Just out of interest I thought I’d wear my Garmin Forerunner 305 heart rate monitor to bed last night to see what my resting heart rate was. I expected it to be fairly low, as it always seems pretty low compared to most people and thought it would somewhere around 40bpm, but I checked it...
It looks as though summer is here, if only for the weekend. Yesterday was hot and sunny with a light NE breeze in the morning and then a NW seabreeze in the afternoon. Not quite enough wind for windsurfing – even with big kit – so I had a nice MTB ride around the Summit...
Another good night for moths last night. Relatively warm, still and plenty of things flapping around the moth trap. I took a look before going to bed and a there were already a one new garden records for me to identify –Â a very nice little ‘Common Swift’. In the end the haul was just...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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