Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Halloween may have been last weekend, but that didn’t stop is going on a spooky night trail in some nearby woods last night. I won’t tell you which woods as I don’t want to give anything away, but we found out about it through aber-cachers, a local geocaching website that I set up a few...
Despite the weather we decided to go to the lantern parade and fireworks in Machynlleth over the weekend. I’d been to the Aberdovey Windsurf Demo during the day and hadn’t had much luck there with the weather as there wasn’t enough wind and as we left for the lantern parade it started raining. Once in...
It’s Halloween, so Morgan and Anna spent yesterday afternoon preparing the pumpkin we grew in the garden. It was quite a large pumpkin so they were able to do two designs on it, and there was loads of flesh and loads of seeds too. So, as well as creating a spooky halloween lantern to ward...
Anna joined us for our geocaching expedition on Friday. We started off with a fun litle cache in the woods just outside of Talybont called ‘Lambda’ and then stopped off for another quick cache and dash in Bow Street, before heading into Aberystwyth where we stopped to look for a puzzle cache called ‘Sigma – 1854 –...
We picked the pumpkin yesterday. We’ve been growing it from seed it all year and it’s a whopper – Well, it isn’t that big but considering that it is supposed to have been a bad year for pumpkins then we think we’ve done quite well. The ones that you can buy in the shops are...
It has to be a proud moment for any Dad when their son learns to skim stones. Luckily I caught Morgan’s first ever successful attempt on video, so here it is for all to share. I’m pleased to welcome Morgan to the wonderful world of Stone Skimming – My job is complete!
Morgan’s class all came out of school cradling little surprises for us the other day wrapped in tissue paper. When we opened it this is what we found. Don’t worry, it isn’t what you think! Apparently they had been working on clay modelling and sculpturing during the day and the topic was ‘something from nature’....
It’s my fault for suggesting that Morgan have fish-fingers and custard for dinner the other evening. Who’d have thought that a fussy eater such as Morgan would agree to it? He is six I suppose and therefore prone to agree to the weird and wonderful, but as I’d offered it as an alternative I had...
During a brief break in the weather yesterday we managed to get out in the garden and not only mow the lawn but harvest some vegetables too. Onions Courgettes Yellow Courgettes Tomatoes Carrots Parsnips Beans Beetroot Spring Onions Not a bad haul really and it made for a delicious dinner. We certainly got more than...
After our Stop Motion attempts with Lego, Morgan has been chomping at the bit to do some more animation. He could do it himself, but likes a bit of help from me so finding time isn’t always easy and setting up a decent storyboard and all the tools and toys needed to do it takes...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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