Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Doesn’t time fly! It’s been over 10 years since we built our house, so about time that we finished off some of the interior decorating! For some reason we’ve just never quite got around to sanding down and varnishing the interior woodwork throughout various parts of the house. To be fair there are various reasons for...
Anna and Morgan were busy carving pumpkins yesterday…
We’ve been getting our toes ready for Halloween… Although we have now tasked Anna with finding some glow in the dark nail-varnish instead so they may well change by the end of the week. Especially seeing as I don’t really like the yellow, but we didn’t have any orange colpured nail varnish.
Once again this year Morgan was selected to represent his school in the Aberystwyth District Cross Country Championships. That is despite doing no training whatsoever, something that we will nave to address as he could do quite well if he just did one or two runs beforehand to remind himself of how to pace etc....
Yep, we’re at it again – camping in the garden that is. Morgan, Anna and I only have September and December to tick off in order to get our Bronze Dragon Award. We have a Scout camp planned for December so thought we’d tick of September last night as well with a night under canvas in...
Whilst walking in the Moelwyns above Tanygrisiau the other week Morgan and I came across a whole load of mine entrances that led to caverns and passages that looked ripe for exploring. Not knowing much about them and not having the right equipment with us we resisted the temptation to enter them, but did look...
I think that having hit 32 consecutive days on Saturday we are coming to the end of our geocaching streak. We went out on a high though with a 5 star mountain challenge. That’s 5 stars out of 5 stars in case you were wondering. As mentioned in a recent post about our walks up Cadair Idris and...
Phew, I’ve think we’ve broken more geocaching records than ever in a single day today! Most caches in a single day Most caches in a month Most caches in a year Geostreak and a 500 cache milestone too This was all down to the Loop the loop series in the hills above Llywngwril by ‘Puffing...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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