Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
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...
This is a post for Anna’s mum and all you phenologists out there. We may be heading for some snow and a bit of a cold snap, but our Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris) has just started flowering. Apparently it is meant to flower between March and June, so it must be a little confused!
Things are getting a little colder, -4.8ºC here last night and it looks as though there is some significant snow on the way overnight tonight and into tomorrow morning. The Borth and Ynyslas live weather station has been displaying its little ‘snow is on the way icon’ since last night. It always amazes me how...
Dave Sarah and I had a good day out and a nice long walk yesterday. Two caches: Tarren Memorial Llaeron Earth Is It? 14 miles, lots of hills and some amazing views. As usual the photos don’t do justice. Click here for a full report of our day geocaching in Wales. We also found a...
Our weather station has now been up and running for over a year so I can start comparing stats. I’ve been looking today at the January’s weather stats from 2006 vs 2007…. Now obviously 2 data points can’t in anyway form a trend and with my geological background I’m always moaning at ‘weather experts’ for...
I’ve just been playing around with a site called itsnotaboutthenumbers.com that allows you to upload you geocaching finds to it and then displays a whole load of stats about your finds, where you’ve found caches, difficulty ratings etc etc…. The level of detail is quite a amazing. You can then generate an HTML page to...
Just a quick note to say that I’m in the process of building a little website aimed at promoting the ‘sport’ of geocaching in the Aberystwyth area. Aber-cachers.co.uk will be a comminuty site where local and visiting geocachers can plan trips, ask for advice and generally get to know each other. As well as covering...
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
