Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
The weather has been terrible here since Christmas, but we really wanted to get Morgan out for a decent ride on his new bike. We had a quick spin around Nant yr Arian on it on Boxing Day and he’d been over to the beach on it, but really needed an easy, long ride to...
Morgan and I have just got back from playing with his ‘Boys Toys’ at Nant yr Arian. I took him out on a nice ride on his lovely new bike. He needs to get used to it still but once he has, it’ll be much better than his old one. He also had a skateboard...
I think Morgan may have broken a record on Christmas Day as he managed to make it start at 2:30am! Santa had already been, so he came into our bed with his stocking and opening the presents in it. For some reason Santa must have been punishing us as he had left him an electronic...
We’ve spent the last couple of evenings watching Morgan’s Nativity play at school. This year it was titled ‘Barn in a Barn’ and showed us the nativity scene from the view of the animals; an owl, a cockerel, a cat, a donkey, cows, sheep, camels and numerous other small rodents! It was well done as...
Thanks to everyone for my birthday greetings, cards and presents yesterday. Although I did do a little experiment on Facebook where I hid my birthday from my profile until the evening… During that time I didn’t get a single birthday wish via Facebook, but within seconds of switching it back on they came flooding in!...
We usually have a rule in our house that the Christmas decorations can’t go up until after my birthday on the 11th December. However, after our Christmas weekend away and the fact that lights were popping up everywhere, I was beginning to feel in the Christmas spirit so couldn’t wait to get them up. Morgan...
This year for our Christmas family gathering we all headed off to the Forest of Dean. First we had a very nice and very large lunch in the Miners Arms and then went to Clearwell Caves to visit Santa. The caves are actually a combination of natural caves and extensive mine workings. The mining dates...
With Christmas fast approaching and the number of weekends left available for the family get together dwindling, we had a relatively early family weekend this year. Anna, Morgan and I drove to my parents house on Friday straight after work and school. We don’t go to the city very often so we took the opportunity...
Christmas came early to out household yesterday. It’s a long story, but Anna cam home on Friday with a huge (8kg) fresh turkey. There was nothing to do, but to cook it. So yesterday we made a start with eating it, but even with help from Robbie the cat we barely made a dent in it....
It was a lovely day on Saturday so after doing some gardening and digging out bags and bags of compost from the compost bins we decided to head over for a family walk along the beach. However, as we walked through the groynes I was greeted by perfect peeling surf and some pretty decent sized...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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