Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
My parents are here for a long weekend so we went out for Sunday lunch yesterday. We had heard that the carvery at the Marine in Aberystwyth was good so after a walk along the prom to build up an apetite off we went for lunch. All of the reports of it being good were...
Anna and I don’t have too many secrets from each other, we tell each other everything and that leads to a happy, successful relationship. Or maybe I should rephrase that and say as far as I know, we don’t have any secrets – I don’t at least! However, now and then you find out things...
I didn’t think I’d be able to do that! Yesterday, despite still having a bit of a cold, I did my 3:2 minute intervals workout on the turbo trainer. Last time I did this workout on Feb 1st I did the hard efforts at 280 Watts and wrote: My legs were feeling it come the...
I’ve had a bit of a cold lately, it’s nothing too bad just a sore throat, headache and bunged up a bit, but considering what happened last time I exercised whilst ill I’ve been taking it easy. Last time I ended up getting pericarditis and spending several days on the cardiac ward at Bronglais Hospital....
OK, time for a moan about our Broadband Speeds again! As part of my job as a freelance website designer I’m often being called on to help people with their computers, set up e-mail accounts, sort out their broadband connections and generally teach them how to do certain things on their computers. Living in rural...
I’m not really sure why everyone seems to be having a go at Toyota Cars . They’ve identified a few issues with several of their car models – OK, that amounts to a considerable number of individual cars – but they have admitted that there is an issue and are fixing it. What more could...
As you may know from recent posts I’ve started moth trapping and have been part of the formation of the Ceredigion Moth Group. It’s all a little ‘geeky’ but I quite enjoy the moth trapping, as does Morgan and learning more about the creatures around us is always a good thing. Keeping records of them...
The Ceredigion Moth Group is up and running and we seem to be making some progress. I’ve set up a mailing list so that we can all keep in touch with each other and we have been sending our records from 2009 to the new County Recorder. I only had a fairly small number of...
I’ve just got back from a nice little windsurf session in the estuary here at Ynyslas. Ivor, our local katabatic wind was up to his usual tricks with a decent NE wind funbelling down through the valley at up to 25 knots. And this was despite the fact that the forecast was for winds of...
Only one month to go until the Mawddach Goldrush so I thought I’d better get some longer rides in. That was the plan for Saturday, but the surf was going off so I had to go for a surf at Ynyslas first. The surf turned out to be pretty much as good as it gets...
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
