Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
April is here, the days are getting longer and despite the cold temperatures there were some new moths in the trap last night. Early Grey x1 Hebrew Character x4 Pine Beauty x1 * Small Quaker x1 * Common Quaker x1 * Red Chestnut x1 *= New Garden Record The Pine Beauty is indeed a Beauty!...
I had been doing quite well with my fitness drive recently. I’d been out on the bike or on the Turbo Trainer a fair bit, I’d been swimming once a week and going to circuit training once a week and I’d even started running a little bit. Best of all, I’d lost a little bit...
After the best surf Ynyslas can muster on Saturday and some sunshine I was keen to get back in the water again. Darren (Badexcuseforasailor from Forces-of-Nature) was here for the weekend and we had arranged to either windsurf if there was wind or go for a bike ride, but windsurfing was the preferred activity. After...
Despite the weather, we had a good time on our recent caravan holiday to South Wales. We stayed at the huge Park Dean caravan site at Trecco Bay. Not normally our sort of thing but we had a cheap deal and it turned out good. The caravan itself was very modern and much bigger than...
Guess what, the third day of our holiday dawned, cold wet and miserable again, although after breaksfast there was a brief respite from the rain so we went to Kenfig Dunes for a wander around the National Nature Reserve. It’s kind of a home from home as we live amongst the dunes of Ynyslas but...
The second day of our holiday dawned in now traditional fashion, very cold, very wet and downright miserable. No playing on the beach for us so off we headed to Swansea to find a place called Plantasia. Plantasia was a little odd as it was housed within a shopping centre. Unfortunately most of the shops...
The first day of our holiday and like the rest of the week it dawned cold, wet and miserable. We therefore headed off to Cardiff and ‘Techniquest’, a kids science museum. It was really good with loads of hands on displays and lots of interesting and fun things for Morgan and for me and Anna....
If you haven’t noticed the weather this week has been atrocious and I can only think it must have been our fault. We were off on a family caravan holiday in Porthcawl. As I started loading the car on Monday, the heavens opened and I got soaked. It then continued to rain pretty much non-stop...
I had a good day at the Cardiganshire Moth Workshop in Borth on Saturday. There was a good attendance with 12 people there, including some from further south in the County which is promising. We started off going through the contents of some moth traps that had been left out the night before. The one...
Sunday dawned and time for the End of Month Ride. The weather forecast was terrible, but once up at Pendam although it looked pretty murly and was quite chilly all looked OK. I met Dave, John, Jimmy and James there and after the usual pfaff and chat in the car park we headed off. The...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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