Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
It’s becoming a bit of an annual event for us, but we went to the Machynlleth Lantern Parade and Firework display again last night. It was pouring with rain when we left, but soon brightened up and we had lovely clear skies and a nice dry evening. The lantern parade itself wasn’t as good as...
Once again, America is taking over a little and we are celebrating Halloween more and more each year. Anna and Morgan prepared the pumpkin last night ready to ward off the evil spirits. We should note that the pumpkin was grown by Dave and Sarah our neighbours and it now looks really good in the...
Just a quick list of some things to do in and around Aberystwyth this Autumn. It isn’t exhaustive of course but it covers our usual haunts and may give you some ideas if you’re at a loose end. Saturday 23rd October Feed the Birds Day – Ynys Hir (10am – 4pm) – make bird feeders/scavenger...
After our meeting of the Ceredigion Moth Group on Saturday morning Morgan and I headed back down to sea level and collected Anna and a friend of Morgan’s called Lotti and we all headed off to the RSPB reserve at Ynyshir where we were booked in for a Teddy Bears Picnic – or as it...
One of Morgan’s friends, Lotti, invited us to her house for a little party on the beach yesterday. They had all had their reports this week and as they were good they were having a treat. We all had a little surf, Morgan managed to stand up briefly and had good fun, as did Lotti,...
It was Morgans School Fete yetserday and the theme was ‘The Circus’. Thankfully the rain held off and we all had fun. Morgan went dressed as a clown wearing a home made bow-tie, my shorts, my shoes, a red nose and a clowns hat which looked pretty good. We all raised lots of money for...
It looks as though everyone is jumping on the beekeeping bandwagon at the moment. A good thing for bees, a good thing for the environment and a good thing for beekeepers too. Even the Coop are trying to encourage people to get into beekeeping. Their ‘Plan Bee‘ has been offering training courses and has even...
My first triathlon in 20 years and preparations weren’t good. I’d been ill for a couple of weeks so hadn’t done much training and hadn’t managed to get out on my bike after fiddling with the position set up. We arrived in Gloucestershire on Friday evening and I had a quick drive around the cycle...
Morgan and I wandered across to the beach to help with the Borth & Ynyslas Beach Clean yesterday. Dave & Sarah organise these on a fairly regular basis and recently for various reasons such as being away, children’s parties, too windy etc. etc. we’ve been unable to help out so it was good to be...
Sorry, I couldn’t resist a political post here on the weblog! Worse still, this is far too late, but it is interesting. I’ve been complaining about the media coverage in the run up to the election and the fact that there is very little information about the policies of the parties, but more emphasis on...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
 |
 |
More live data from Ynyslas
Subscribe for full access.
Weather trends, weather extremes and historic data. See what you get here.
Borth & Ynyslas Weather Station
If you don't want all this extra information, please consider supporting the weather station anyway by buying me a coffee.
Buy me a coffee
