Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
What a lovely Easter weekend that was.. Gorgeous sunshine, warm and not too busy here. Anna, Morgan and I did a bit of geocaching and visited a few new caches in Aberystwyth known as the Oakey Pokey series as they are all hidden in oak trees. They provided a nice little walk along a quite...
I had a great day in the hills yesterday. The sun was shining it was really hot and I was off in search of 3 geocaches. I parked near Nant-y-Moch and headed straight up to the summit of Plynlimon, I didn’t find the first cache of the day so headed off around the ridge and...
I had an e-mail from someone at WOM World the other day asking me if I’d like to testa Nokia N93 and review it on my websites… Now, I’m no real phone buff and didn’t know what Nokia N93 was but I do like gadgets and if I can get my hands on a top...
We had another action packed weekend here in West Wales. I had an early start on Saturday as Ivor (the local katabatic wind that blows down the Dyfi Valley at this time of year) was up to his tricks and Impi called around for a windsurf session at 6am. We headed off to the estuary...
British Summer Time (BST) is here and it seems as though it has brought Summer with it. Yesterday was lovely here in Borth, Wales. The sun was shining and Ivor, our local katabatic wind, put in an appearance so I could go windsurfing in the estuary at Ynyslas. Ivor wasn’t quite up to full strength...
The weather is warming up, the clocks have gone forward so it is time to start work in the garden again. Morgan and I had a productive day yesterday. The lawns (if you can call them that) have been mowed. They’ve taken a bit of abuse over the winter from being waterlogged and from a...
Working as a freelance web designer here in deepest darkest Wales can be a fairly isolated job at times. Many of my clients keep in contact with me via email and I rarely even speak to some of them let alone meet them in person. They simply send me an email telling me what they...
After having a great days windsurfing on Saturday I thought it only fair that I resist the temptation to go windsurfing again on Sunday, (despite the fact that the Borth and Ynyslas Weather Station showed a max gust speed of 49.7 knots), and have a family day out instead… Well, it was Mother’s Day. So,...
Just a quick congratulations for ttTom (Tom and Shirl) for getting the first to find on all 5 new geocaches that I hid at the weekend in the Watery Wales 2 series. Also, a congratulations to Gwyddno who followed them around closely and got the second to find on all 5 caches. It sounds as...
You won’t believe this… Anna did the washing today at the launderette and whilst she was doing one load she noticed my iPod earphones spinning around in the washing machine… Needless to say we were expecting them to be ruined 40 minutes on a high temp wash and a rinse cycle was bound to have...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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Traws Eryri Day 2 – Dolgellau to Trawsfynydd
Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
