Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
As I’ve had some news from various medical tests I thought it was time for an update. The heart attack I had almost 18 months ago came as a bit of a surprise. I had none of the usual risk factors, I was otherwise very fit, very healthy and had a pretty good lifestyle as...
Morgan spent the weekend at the Big Tribute Festival. I don’t think there was much planning involved but he seemed to enjoy it even if he hasn’t really told us much about it. Despite camping in a field with thousands of other festival goers he somehow managed to blag a nice hot tub every morning...
Well, after missing a week windsurfing in Morocco, things didn’t turn out too badly here on the wind front. In fact I managed to get out on windsurfing every day. Most days were on the seafront in decent conditions nicely powered up with a 5.7m sail. There was a session where I had to change...
Last week whilst at the Commonwealth Games I had a message from Simon telling me that he was going windsurfing in Morocco. His daughter was supposed to be going with him but wasn’t able to go so he had a spare ticket. Did I want to go? The accomodation was all paid for so the...
We didn’t quite break the all time temperature high here yesterday. We got close though. The all time high was 33.7ºC and we ‘only’ made it to 33.4ºC on the Borth and Ynyslas Weather Station. That was hot enough for us. It’s always a little cooler by the sea of course and just inland from...
With high record breaking high temperatures forecast it was time to relax! Saturday wasn’t actually looking too hot with temperatures set to reach around 23ºC. It still made sense to get out on my bike earlier rather than later. So the day started with a nice little bike ride with Steve and Paul. I went...
Well, typically, having had a nice long break planned with Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday off work, I’ve been unable to do much with it. My cold / chest infection has kept me out of action. No doubt it’ll be fine by Thursday and I’ll be able to go to work as usual...
I’m not doing too well with my mission to re-gain some fitness. I obviously lost loads of fitness after my heart attack but have been trying to regain at least some of it ever since. Recovery Initially I was unable to do anything other than some short walks. I’d been through quite a trauma. There...
The ‘oldies’ (my parents) were here to stay at the weekend. My Dad couldn’t drive so they had an adventure on the trains to get here. We quite like the trains, I don’t think they were that impressed though! For some reason, while my Dad was here he wanted to go the Aberdyfi to go...
Well, I wasn’t expecting that! I had some neck, back and chest pains on Monday evening. They felt muscular so I wasn’t too worried, it just felt like a stiff neck, along with the chest pains that I get on and off all the time since my heart attack. I had an uncomfortable nights sleep...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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