Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
With Wales in the grip of some proper autumnal weather we thought it wise not to head off too high into the hills today so instead planned a little ride from Pendam out to Nant y Moch, with a few geocaches to maintain our consectutive days geocaching record. It was blowing a hoolie up there...
Morgan and I had a lovely day in the Moelwyn Mountains on Thursday. We had our sights on the final feeder cache for the Gwyddno Mountain Challenge geocache. We needed to find it in order to get the final questions that would give us the last few numbers of the coordinates for the final cache. So,...
Well, it feels as though summer is coming to an end. There’s only a few days left of the school holidays, we’ve just had a fairly damp August Bank Holiday weekend and there are only 120 days until Christmas! We didn’t let the change in the weather dampen our spirits though and managed some family...
As I mentioned elsewhere, we’ve been doing a fair bit of geocaching lately. It started whilst we were away on holiday, we did a few at the beginning of August and in the process gained a couple of souvenirs towards the 7 Souvenirs of August challenge. We then aimed to get a few more souvenirs and before we...
Our family summer holiday moved into it’s next phase, following on from cycling to John O’Groats to Lands End and then a day or two on Bodmin Moor we were now at my parents house in South Gloucestershire for a couple of days. We arrived at around lunchtime on Wednesday afternoon and had arranged for...
Following our ‘sort of holiday’ whilst cycling from John O’Groats to Lands End, we had booked ourselves a proper family holiday for a couple of nights on Bodmin Moor. We were staying in a camping pod billed as a Hobbit Home, high up on the moor at Wheal Tor Hotel. The welcome there wasn’t the...
Holiday time!!! if you can call cycling the length of Britain from John O’Groats to Lands End a ‘holiday’.. Or driving it for that matter as that’s what Anna will be doing acting as support crew along with Morgan. Before we could do that though we had the small matter of driving North to John...
We’re certainly making the most of the Summer Holidays. It may only be the first day but with gorgeous weather there’s just so much to do. If only we could have some proper time off at home to fit it all in. Morgan and I have been busy today though. After our Big Butterfly Count...
Morgan and I have just taken part in the Big Butterfly Count. It was a gorgeous day for it, 20ºC and sunny with butterflies and other flying bugs all over the place. It was hard to keep up with them all, but we counted 16 Meadow Browns, 3 Small Tortoisehsell’s and a Small White. It was easy to...
That was quite a weekend! Dominated by our 10th Wedding Anniversary celebrations. We decided ages ago that we’d like to have a bit of a party for our 10th anniversary and get people together so that we’d remember it. You know how these things are, a simple barbeque in the back garden was planned, nothing...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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