Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I find loads to keep me amused in Borth, but for the average holiday-maker I guess there isn’t a huge amount to do. There is the beach to play on and an amusements arcade, and of course the ‘Animalarium’. I’ve never actually been in to it, it doesn’t look great, and according to this inside...
Well, I guess I should wish myself a Happy Birthday here just in case no one else does (I think Anna has lost the ability to blog!), and of course at the same time thank everyone for my cards and presents…. Thank-You!. It was a lovely day here today, the sun was shining, the wind...
It was a sad day in our household yesterday due to the death of a pet frog… For those who don’t know, I used to be a zookeeper at Bristol Zoo and whilst I was there I adopted several exotic pets. These pets included 4 Whites Tree Frogs which I have had ever since. They...
Well, it has sprung up on us again and all of a sudden there is no time to do anything before it arrives. This weekend we are off to a Christmas party at Morgans nursery, next weekend we are off Christmas tree hunting in the West country (and collecting my new car) and then the...
My recent post about the utilities here in Wales describes a little about our sewage, electricity and gas problems here in West Wales, and sure enough we had a power cut again yesterday. But there is one thing I forgot to mention that is really weird. Every evening at 7.36pm our digital TV reception goes...
Continuing on from my post yesterday about autumn being back to normal, the winds are continuing to batter us here in Wales. The weather station recorded a gust of 48.8 knots on Sunday (the strongest up until then), but this morning we have beaten that with a gust of 53.6 knots. (Thats 61.7 mph or...
I found this quite amusing! BOW STREET TORNADO APPEAL A major hurricane (Hurricane Sauspan Bach) and an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale hit Ceredigion in the early hours of Tuesday with its epicentre in Bow Street. Victims were seen wandering around aimlessly, muttering “Faaackinell”. The hurricane decimated the area causing approximately £30 worth...
Well, it has been a few years since we’ve had some proper autumnal storms, but things seem to be back to normal this year. The last two weeks or so have seen depression after depression tracking across the UK, the charts have been full of isobars and we’ve been experiencing typically autumnal stormy weather. The...
Despite spending a fair bit of time looking for cars at the weekend we did manage an hour or so putting a few pieces of the wildcat geocache together. We managed to find all but one of the figures required for the coordinates of cahce 4. We didn’t actually have to visit all of the...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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