Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Sunday morning was absolutely gorgeous here. A perfect early Spring morning that just can’t be beat. I was up early to go for a run and a swim, did a bit of work, got ready and then headed into Machynlleth. The temperature was around 1°C there and mist was hanging in the valleys with gorgeous...
It seemed like Christmas again at the weekend for us. It was Morgan’s 7th birthday and my parents were here visiting. Morgan was pretty excited about it being his birthday and even more so when he saw the big pile of presents he had to open. I don’t think he was expecting much as we...
It’s Morgans birthday soon and this year, rather than have a party we decided to have a day out at Chester Zoo with a couple of his friends. As it was half term last week, Anna took the day off work on Friday so that was the day that we all went to the zoo....
It’s half term again so Morgan is at home with me. That means an early start for me so that I can get work done and out of the way before Morgan gets out of bed, giving me plenty of time to keep him entertained. This mornings entertainment was a trip to the hospital for...
Phew, that’s Volume 2 (July – December) of our 2010 weblog book ready for print as well. After hundreds of hours of work laying it all out in a desktop publishing application, importing photos proof-reading and proof-reading again, creating a DVD of video clips to accompany it and then exporting each volume as a pdf...
I wouldn’t like to say how long I’ve spent on it – hundreds of hours probably – but I’ve almost finished the printed version of our ‘Simple Life of Luxury’ weblog book for from 2010. The 2009 edition was 440 pages long and looks glorious, but the 2010 version should top that. It will be...
It was the first weekend of the half term holidays and Morgan announced that he wanted to do some baking and who am I to argue with him. I left it all up to him and he decided on a recipe for Moon Rocks. We made some moon rocks with dried cherries in, asteroids with...
It was one of Morgan’s best friends birthday parties at the weekend. Kids birthday parties here seem to be fairly active affairs. The main options seem to be a swimming party, a ‘soft-play’ party, a cinema party or a climbing wall party. This one was at the climbing wall at the University followed by a...
Recently the person who ran the local scout group decided to step down and there was a big recruitment drive to get some new leaders in to prevent the troop folding. Out local scout troop has an active beaver, cub, scout and explorer section which covers ages from 5 up to 18. Boys and girls...
Although we were quite busy this weekend we didn’t really do much of note so there hasn’t been a blog post for you to read. Saturday was a lovely day, cold but sunny and with no wind. I went out for a bike ride with INTR triathlon club in the morning. It’s time to start...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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