Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I’ve just completed an interval session on my Turbo Trainer. The session today was a 3:2 min interval session, so after a 10 minute warm up I did 7 repetitions of: 3 minutes @ 340 Watts 2 minutes @ 120 Watts followed of course by a 10 minute cool down. It was fairly hard, but...
Looks as though we’re going to be having another naturalists weekend this weekend. First there’s a meeting of the Ceredigion Moth Group so I have to set my moth trap up on Friday night and then go back to it for an early morning meeting with the other members and go through the contents of...
The weather wasn’t great for moth trapping on Saturday night. It was raining when I put the trap out and then the wind picked up with gusts to 31.6 knots and average wind speed around 20-25 knots for most of the night. The temperature dropped to 13.8ºC, but there was still quite a varied catch...
The Caterpillars we had earlier in the year must have done Ok as we’ve been getting loads of Lackey Moths in the moth trap lately. 47 of them a couple of weeks ago and quite a few every night we put the trap out. I noticed the beginnings of a new caterpillar invasion yesterday as...
There seem to be loads of butterflies around this year – I’m not sure if it’s just a case of me noticing them more, the fact that the garden is growing well so more are in the garden or that its a good year for them, but here’s a Small Copper that I spotted whilst...
One of Morgan’s friends, Lotti, invited us to her house for a little party on the beach yesterday. They had all had their reports this week and as they were good they were having a treat. We all had a little surf, Morgan managed to stand up briefly and had good fun, as did Lotti,...
It was time to get back out on my Mountain Bike yesterday. I’d arranged to be picked up by John and we were heading to Coed y Brenin to ride around the MBR Trail and try out the new ‘False Teeth’ section. It was pouring with rain whilst in the car on the way there...
I thought last night would be a good night for the moths. Temperatures stayed above 15ºC and when I put the trap out there was no wind and some light rain. The rain eased overnight and the wind picked up a little but there were still plenty of moths in the trap this morning. In...
It was Morgans School Fete yetserday and the theme was ‘The Circus’. Thankfully the rain held off and we all had fun. Morgan went dressed as a clown wearing a home made bow-tie, my shorts, my shoes, a red nose and a clowns hat which looked pretty good. We all raised lots of money for...
It’s been a good year for the garden so far this year. Lots of sunshine, some rain and not too much wind, plus I’ve spent a fair amount of time tending to it. It is therefore looking good which I’m quite pleased about. I have just come across a photo of it from a few...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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Traws Eryri Day 2 – Dolgellau to Trawsfynydd
Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
