Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
March has been quite a busy month, my birthday continued with a party, a visit from Ninny and Grandad and a trip to see Granny. My party was really cool although I did end up with a sore ear. Everyone had fun. It was good to see Ninny and Grandad. I got to show them...
We had a busy day in the garden yesterday and some gorgeous Spring weather. The temperature reached 21.2ºC and it was clear blue skies all the way. Anna and Morgan popped into town to get some concrete and a few additional bits and bobs along with some new plants while I made a start on...
Morgan gets better at flying his kite with every attempt. Of course, he’s never happy just flying it and insists on doing ‘loop-the-loops’ or flying it one-handed which then means I end up running up and down the beach to launch it for him. He has got the hang of it now though and could...
Progress has been a little slower than expected on the conservatory so far this week because the builders have had some issues with their van so didn’t always have the necessary materials on the replacement van that they had to use. They were also called away this morning to tidy up a few loose ends...
Anna and Morgan were away on the Isle of Man for the weekend and I had to collect them from Liverpool on Sunday afternoon which provided me with a perfect excuse for a mountain bike ride at Llandegla. I drove up in the morning on lovely clear roads in the sunshine. The drive itself was...
Anna and Morgan are away for the weekend so things have been pretty quiet around the house for me. Things have also remained remarkably tidy which is nice though! Annoyingly our phone line has gone down again. It did this over Christmas and we discovered that a cable had come loose on the telegraph pole...
Morgan is doing well with his kite-flying now. It took him a couple of attempts and to start with he didn’t really persevere . His first couple of goes only lasted a couple of minutes each, but I didn’t want to force him to do it so just left it at that each time. He...
Anna was working on Saturday so couldn’t join us for our weekly walk along the beach to check on the progress of the Borth Sea Defence Scheme. My parents were here though and hadn’t seen any of it yet so as usual we drove from Ynyslas to Borth, parked up on the road and then...
Work on the conservatory continues at a pace. On Friday the builders were increasing the height of the floor so have been filling the area with hardcore and then wandering around on top of it with a big, noisy whacker plate. They’ve also just started cutting into the walls of the house with a big...
The schools were closed on Thursday for polling, so Morgan was at home with me and I was forced to take a day off work (almost). It doesn’t take much persuasion mind you if I can manage it. What with the builders here and Morgan to entertain, the day flew by. We also seemed to...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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