Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
[dropcap]R[/dropcap]ather than send Morgan to Holiday Club for the summer Anna and I are taking various days off work so that we can be at home with him as much as possible. Some of these are days off work at the University, others for me are days off Website Design work. Tuesday was the latter...
You can’t beat a sunny weekend at home. Lots of chores and little jobs completed on Saturday and then plenty of time to enjoy the garden and pig out with a barbecue. Sunday dawned wet and windy though and the shed still leaks so I decided not to bother going for my usual Sunday morning...
Morgan in a ‘submarine’ that he made yesterday!!!
Sunday dawned wet and miserable and didn’t look good for our apiary safari in Llanafan. I was going to go for a ride but decided against it when I saw the weather. Instead, I got up and did lots of household chores and then baked a Greek Honey Cake ready for the afternoons beekeeping meeting. It turned...
It seems to be a rare occasion that we get a whole weekend at home these days, especially one with no real events to attend. But that is exactly what we’ve just had. This was partly due to the fact that Morgan was ill so couldn’t go to a special orchestra practise that he was supposed...
Morgan on a day off sick from school… Only 5 minutes before he told me he was feeling better.
With summer in full swing and what looked like the best day of the week weather-wise it seemed a shame to work all day while the sun was shining so Anna and I arranged to finish at 3pm collect Morgan from school and then head to the beach. It would have been nice to go...
It was Father’s Day on Sunday and as usual I started my day with some training. First a nice bike ride with Owain and Bedwyr. We met at Machynlleth Leisure Centre and headed out in the grey, blustery conditions to Cemaes Road and then on past Bedwyr’s house to the Brigands Inn roundabout where we...
A rain, miserable Saturday, what should we do? How about attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the largest number of people learning to write Android smartphone applications at the same time! Yep, that’s what we did. The BCS chartered institute for IT were inviting individual and families with children over the age of...
It was that time of year again this week – time for the annual Sports Day at Morgan’s school. For once, it was actually held on the day that it was scheduled for and wasn’t postponed due to the weather. The format was the same as ever, but now that Morgan is in year 5...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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