Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I thought I’d give my Dad (who is something of a master carpenter) something to inspect, and no doubt laugh at, next time he visits us in Wales. So, yesterday afternoon was spent building a pergola in the garden. We had plenty of wood left over from the construction of our timber deck so out...
We’ve just had another action packed weekend here in rural mid Wales. Thanks to our local katabatic wind I managed to windsurf every day last week and although the wind wasn’t forecast to be great for the weekend, Ivor kept blowing and I managed to windsurf on Saturday and Sunday morning in the estuary at...
Hows this for an interesting walk??? Not sure I could do it!
I couldn’t resist another day out on my bike in the sunny weather, so after tidying up some loose ends as far as work was concerned I headed off on my bike and I hid a new geocache while I was out there. I won’t give too much away about its location but it provides...
Sunday was hot and sunny again so I headed off to Nant-yr-Arian where there was a moutnain-bike demo being held. It was of course very busy there and there were lots of nice bikes about. I set off on my bike for a little circuit around part of the Pendam Trail and then went to...
Well, the hot weather continues so we thought we’d make the most of it and get out for the day. First we drove around some local lanes looking for suitable hiding places for our planned ‘Assume Nothing Wales‘ series of caches. We have a few ideas, and will hopefully get a couple of new caches...
I love this time of year, a nice mini heat-wave in spring. The weather station nearly hit 25ºC yesterday. The plants are all growing well in the garden, we can wear shorts, go barefoot and eat dinner on the deck, the birds are singing and the wind is blowing. Today and yesterday I managed a...
We’ve just got back from a trip to the Isle of Man and as we flew over rather than going on the boat I didn’t have any windsurfing kit with me so we did lots of geocaching instead. The Assume Nothing series by Happy Humphrey kept us busy as did a few other caches. El...
Happy Humphrey, a prolific geocache hider on the Isle of Man certainly kept us busy on our recent trip to the Island, especially with a few attempts on his ‘Assume Nothing IOM’ series. We should have started at the beginning really as we DNF’d (Did not Find) our first attempts on number 2 and number...
My parents were here for the weekend. On Friday afternoon they took Morgan up constitution hill and then on Saturday we had a family day out in Aberdovey. It always seems silly to drive for such a long time only to end up about a mile away from home, but it is a different world...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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MTB / Trail Guides / Wales
Traws Eryri Day 2 – Dolgellau to Trawsfynydd
Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
