Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
The Easter holidays continue and we’ve all been at home. Morgan is off school, Anna has the whole week off work and I had yesterday off work too as the university was still closed. I’ve been doing the odd bit of work on the computer in the early mornings but other than that have pretty...
We had a lovely weekend away this weekend thanks to our invite to Steve and Biddy’s wedding. An excuse for a Weekend Away We have to admit, that at 51 years old, we were beginning to wonder if Steve would ever find ‘the one for him’, but he has in the form of Biddy and...
The weekend turned out quite nice in the end. After a fairly damp camp with the Scouts up at Devil’s Bridge on Friday night, the sun came out on Saturday and temperatures reach 17.3ºC, the hottest day of the year so far. A First Time for Everything I spent the afternoon cleaning cars and working...
We had quite a productive day on Sunday. It started with my usual run and swim, but this week I did it in Aberystwyth as the pool in Machynlleth was being used for the Dyfi Dash. We had to be in Aberystwyth for 11:30am anyway for the Sport Relief Mile with the Scouts so the...
We noticed that a new earthcache called Ynyslas Longshore Drift had been set up here during the week. Today was the first chance we had to get to it and luckily the day dawned bright and sunny. So, after breakfast we all put our shoes and coats on and headed off for a stroll along...
Sunday was set to be fairly busy day. I started with my usual run and swim in Machynlleth. My training is stepping up a notch at the moment, with slightly less volume but a little more intensity as I move from Base Training into a Strength and Endurance Phase. That meant hill reps on my...
Another lovely weekend, with the sun shining and temperatures reaching 13.8ºC on Sunday. A Day in Welshpool We headed off to Welshpool early on Saturday morning. Anna and Morgan weren’t too keen on leaving the house at 8am as they consider that early. I of course had been up for hours having not slept at all the...
It was World Book Day on Thursday which means that children all over the country and presumably the world go to school dressed up as a character from one of their favourite books. Morgan decided at first that he wanted go as Gollum from The Hobbit but we couldn’t quite decide how to make a...
It was Morgan’s birthday party yesterday and we had planned to take him and a few of his friends Go-Karting. I started my day with my usual Sunday morning Run and Swim in Machynlleth followed by a bacon sandwich and coffee in the leisure centre. It was quiet there thanks to the fact that many people...
Uh oh… I think I may have overbaked for Morgan’s birthday party…. There’s only going to be 5 of them and the Go-Karting centre we are going to is providing food, I just thought I’d bake some extra cakes to keep them all going!
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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