Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
It was a sad day in our usually happy household on Friday. I was getting ready to set of to Rotherham for the Rother Valley Triathlon when Pat noticed that Squeak, one of Morgan’s two guinea pigs was looking a little quiet. I took a look and it was immediately apparent that she wasn’t in...
Phew, I think we’ve just about caught up after our whistle stop visit to the Isle of Man. The main reason for visiting the island this year was to attend the wedding of Andy and Natalie, but as the wedding fell on the same weekend as the Isle of Man End2End mountain bike race I...
We thought we’d introduce Morgan to the joys of hill walking at the weekend as he hasn’t really done any before and where better to start than the highest mountain in Wales. To be honest, it really is the best place to start, not only is it quite an easy climb but the fact that...
Wii-Fit Yoga in stripy underpants – It’s what school holidays were made for.
Despite living just down the road from the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), we’d never been there as a family. Morgan had been with school or holiday club once, Anna had been with her Mum years ago, and I’d never set foot there. So, as it was a miserable day on Monday and we were all...
Check out Morgan’s latest cycling skills – He’s getting some lean on this bend!
I promised I’d take Morgan to the Silver Moutnain Experience during the school holidays, and yesterday was the day. The Silver Mountain Experience is the re-vamped Llywernog Silver-Lead Mine, a mine that stopped working in the early 1900’s and has been a visitor attraction as an historic mine and mining museum since 1973. It has...
What to do? Sit in and watch the Olympics from London 2012 which have been amazing, or go out and enjoy the brief spell of sunny weather? We’ve been trying to do both and it looks as though Morgan has been inspired by some of the athletes. So much so that he decided to start...
The sun was shining, Morgan was off school and I’d promised him we would get the canoe out and go to the beach. So, after a meeting in the morning that is exactly what we did. Slip, Slap Slop and we were ready to do battle with the sun and the waves. Our inflatable canoe that...
I’ve been looking with envy at the various Park Runs around the country lately and had even thought about organising one myself in Aberystwyth but it looks as though someone else is about to do all of the hard work for me. There’s news about that someone is organising a Park Run. The Aberystwyth Athletics...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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MTB / Trail Guides / Wales
Traws Eryri Day 2 – Dolgellau to Trawsfynydd
Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
