Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Bank holiday Monday dawned a little overcast so instead of waiting for Jay and his clan to arise from their tent, Anna, Morgan and I made a trip into Aberystwyth to do some shopping and planned to meet them later in the afternoon. 3pm came around and there was no sign of them so I...
Whilst trawling the internet I came across a recent blog post by Elaine Nicholles about her holiday to Borth. Part of the post says: The weather was bad mostly. The laptop died on the first day. I didn’t feel well for some of the time. I only had one shower. I was pretty smelly in...
Jay, Jennie, Megan, Harry, Charlie, Jack and Millie the dog had survivied their first night in a tent in Borth, and as they all geocache we decided to head of into the hills with them to find the Watery Wales 1 geocaches that I had hidden… Although the wouldn’t be new cache finds for me...
At last, we got to use the garden!! I spend ages keeping the lawn mowed and keeping it all looking nice, but so far this year we’ve barely been able to enjoy it. Jay (my brother) Jennie and their children Megan, Harry, Charlie and Jack were coming to Borth for a camping weekend with the...
Here comes the main bank holiday weekend of the year and at last the summer has arrived. At the moment it is gorgeous outside, wall to wall sunshine, 20ºC and a nice cooling breeze. It looks as though we should have visitors for the weekend too… Well, almost as Jay, Jennie and their children, Meg,...
After working yesterday morning whilst it rained outside, it brightened up in the afternoon so I decided to go out for another ride on my new bike and explore some likely looking trails. I set off from home and cycled along the road to Tre’r Ddol and then found a bridle path that I wanted...
Sunday always looked as though it was going to be a little windy, so Impi and Steve had planned to visit Borth for some good old windsurfing in Wales. Steve arrived here around midnight on Saturday and the wind had already started building. By Sunday morning the Borth weather station was showing gusts of up...
Saturday was a miserable day here, grey and damp so we had a family outing to the supermarket and a naughty lunch at MacDonalds! By about 5pm the weather in Borth looked to have cleared a little. It was still grey, still a little damp but at least the rain had stopped, so as I...
I was ill last week and did very little work on Friday, but I did find the energy to pit my new bike together which arrived from Evans Cycles that afternoon. In fact there wasn’t much to do, the pedals needed fitting, the handlebars needed aligning and the headset tightened and I made a few...
We’ve just had another action packed weekend here in Wales. On Saturday Steve and I headed off to the Arenig hills for some geocaching while Anna looked after Morgan and took him to a birthday party in Aberystwyth. Steve and I met up in Bala and then headed North on a little road to the...
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
