Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I’m quite busy work-wise at the moment and for some reason couldn’t sleep last night so I got up and started work at 3am. I stopped at 7am and then worked again from 8am until midday, which by my reckoning makes a full 8 hour day… I therefore decided to treat myself to an afternoon...
I wasn’t really ‘THAT’ into collecting geocoins, although some of them really are little works of art. If I found one in a geocache I did take it and move it on and log it on the geocaching website, and I do like having the little icons I get for my troubles. Some people take...
We had the first outing of aber-cachers yesterday. Me Anna and Morgan (forcesofnature) and Dave and Sarah (IdleRocks) headed off from Ynyslas, filled up with diesel in Aberystwyth then headed south to Aberaeron where we met up with Tinkerbell, Lesley (Red Kite) and Dan and Vanya (The Dancing Samurai’s). The first cache of the day...
I found Red Kite’s mad dash to get First to Find (FTF) on a new geocache in Aberystwyth quite amusing last night. Aber-cachers was quite busy which is good and there were a few people online posting in the forums, when we discovered that a brand new cache called ‘Off Yer Trolley’ hidden by The...
Regular readers of this blog will know that one of the key factors that allow me to live a ‘Simple Life of Luxury‘ is the fact that I chose to turn my back on my geology training and become a freelance website designer. I guess there was never a conscious decision to become a website...
There was a professional photographer in Aberystwyth the other day taking childrens portraits in Somerfield, so Anna took Morgan in to have his photo taken… Apparently most other parents had dressed their children up in their best clothes, washed them thoroughly and combed their hair etc… We forgot about such things so Morgan turned up...
Today was the day of the 2007 Borth Masters surf contest, and the Gods were on our side. The sun came out, plenty of people turned up and best of all the surf was ‘going off’. Some of the biggest cleanest surf I’ve seen at the lifeboat station in Borth for a long time. I...
Just some photos of Morgan in the snow yesterday.
The snow arrived as promised. It was pretty wild here this morning with blizzard conditions, but Morgan and I went out to play in it anyway… I’ll post some photos of that later. I then did some work and headed off to the hills with Sarah (from next door) around lunch time. We went to...
It was pretty cold this morning, and although the actual temperature only dropped to -4.8ºC, the ‘Feels Like Temperature’ which is calculated by taking into account the actual temperature, the humidity and the wind strength reached an all time low of -11.2ºC at 7.55am… That could be be beaten tomorrow though! The image is a...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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