Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Well, New Year’s Eve in the Cole household was exciting. I was ill, Anna wasn’t up for a late night, but Morgan insisted, so we sat around until midnight, watched the fireworks in London on the TV, had a quick drink and an indoor firework of our own, said Happy New Year to each other...
After writing a weblog post yesterday about our geocaching stats we were motivated to get out there and try to hit the 300 mark before the end of the year. The rain had stopped for the first time in months so we got kitted up and drove into Aberystwyth to try to find some caches....
You may remember that Morgan’s pet guinea pig Squeak died a few months ago. Morgan was heart broken at the time and it also left us with a dilemma. Morgan had another guinea pig called Bo. I was concerned that Bo would get lonely on her own. She is only about 3 years old and...
I do love Christmas – It may be a little stressful in the run up, but the lights, the parties and the anticipation help to ease the stress. Morgan starts to get excited, Santa’s on his way and its time to enjoy some time as a family. I even sit down and watch some films...
It had to happen – I gained some weight on Christmas day! My weight has been up and down a bit lately anyway. Before my big race of the year in New Zealand I was down to about 62kg and feeling trim, but whilst on holiday after the race I went a bit mad for...
This is what happens when you leave a bright red serviette in your pocket and then wash your trousers! Well done Al…better ask Father Christmas for a new pair of jeans!
I don’t know if it’s just us, but our set top Freeview Digiboxes don’t seem to last that long. We don’t have Sky or anything like that here, just a Freeview box with a Hard Drive for recording TV shows. The first one we had years ago was Digihome Freeview box and we loved it....
Keeping the Christmas spirit, here’s a photo of Morgan in Santas Grotto last week.
Just to keep us in the Christmas spirit here’s a photo of our Christmassy light shade. Pretty hey!
The Christmas festivities continue here. We’ve already had a birthday meal for my Mum’s 60th last week and a Christmas Carvery with my family. Last night we had a another celebratory meal, this time with the Aberystwyth Beekeepers Association. It was also my birthday yesterday so it doubled as a birthday meal as well. We...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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