Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Thought I’d share the jokes from our Xmas Crackers with you! Q. What do you get if you ross a skeleton and a detective? A. Sherlock Bones Q. What must you know to be an auctioneer? A. Lots Q. Wo is the most famous married woman in America? A. Mrs Sippi. Sorry!!!!
Just a quick photo I took yesterday.
I’ll soon be releasing my first travel bug on the world. It is activated and ready to go. What’s a Travel Bug? Basically it is a special item that you place in a geocache and send off on a mission. When other geocachers come across them, they move them from cache to cache and the...
For those of you wondering where your Christmas card from us is, don’t panic we haven’t forgotten you and our thoughts are with you at Christmas. However we have decided this year to put the money we would have spent on Christmas cards (which only end up in the bin contributing to the waste problems)...
As promised here is a photo of the lights so far at night. I say so far as I also have an illuminated father christmas with a Merry Christmas banner to go up yet. It isn’t quite over the top yet and I’m sure there are houses with more lights elsewhere in Borth, but it...
Our tree looks nice this year, just the right size for the corner of the room and nicely decorated too. Hopefully it won’t drop its needles as well. Morgan had fun helping us decorate it last night and we have lights in the window and around the deck too. I’m quite into it this year...
The date was set, Sunday Dec 17th 2006, location: Brockley Coombe, Fountain Forestry, weapons and silly hats at the ready, the annual Christmas tree hunt was on: Preparation is of course the key to a successful hunt so the first task was to get the whole family suited and booted. It was then off deep...
Well, we have completed the Wildcat Geocache. I can’t say too much about it here or even post any photos as I don’t want to give too much away, but we actually found it a little easier than we were expecting which in the end was a bit of a disappointment as we were prepared...
We’re collecting my new car this weekend. Brad has already picked it up from S & R Motors, the dealer we bought it from. There were a few little issues with it such as it doesn’t have ABS despite the fact that the description of it said it did and two of the tyres are...
Photo: Last Years Successful Hunt! We’re off visiting family this weekend. It’s that time of year again when we go to my parents to exchange Xmas gifts and partake in the annual Christmas Tree hunt. I actually quite enjoy it, but I think I’m the only one who does. We’re going on Sunday this year...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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