Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
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...
Yes, yet another post about moths… Well, things are hotting up in the moth world and I’m off to a moth workshop in Borth today so I’m enjoying my moth trapping at the moment. Don’t worry, I’m out on my MTb tomorrow and then on holiday for a week so you’ll get something different soon!...
I identified two of the moths caught in our soggy moth trap last night as Clouded Drab (Orthosia incerta), a variable species that can make identification a little difficult. I started having second thoughts about my identification when I put them next to each other for a comparative photo. As you can see they look...
It was very wet out there last night (14.6 mm of rain whilst the moth trap was out), windy at times too at around 20 knots but mild with a minimum temp of 6.6ºC. The moth trap was partly full of water, but there were a few moths in it. Clouded Drab x2 Early Grey...
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
