Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Not content with all of our garden produce we thought it was time for some foraging. I went out for a MTB ride from Pendam whilst Anna and Morgan spent an hour picking blueberries. Apparently there were loads of them and although it takes a while to pick them they got a whole pint of...
My Family Tree project is going well. I’ve been using the MacFamily Tree software to manage the project and have now got over 270 people entered into it I’m interested both in people living today and historical people and have been gathering information from a number of sources. We have a huge family and I...
I haven’t been into the centre of Bristol for years. Broadmead used to be a regular stomping ground for me, but it has all changed since I was last there. As part of our recent few days away we spent a day in Bristol, shopping at the new (to me) Cabot Circus. We first had...
Whilst driving between Southampton and South Gloucestershire on our recent few days away, we took the scenic route and realised that we weren’t far from Stonehenge. I hadn’t visited it for years and Anna and Morgan had never been there. Last time I went there it was just a load of stone on a rolling...
We’ve just got back from a few days away. We’re not having a ‘proper’ holiday this year so we decided to mix a visit to friends and family with a bit of a break and headed off on Thursday morning. After a quick stop at my brothers garage in Bristol for some new tyres for...
As part of our few days away we went for a little walk in the New Forest, from Boldre Church. Morgan was on his bike (most of the time whilst Jasper, Fiona, Anna and I walked in a little circuit around the forest. Jack the dog was with us too. Morgan did OK on his...
Our courgette glut continues and we seem to have been eating courgettes everyday – I hope they’re good for us! As well as courgettes in almost every dish you can think of we’ve had nice courgette salads, courgette ratatouille, roasted courgettes, courgette cake and chocolate courgette cake and now we’ve tried ‘courgette fritters’ ala Jamie...
Another busy weekend for us. We like it that way but now and then it would be nice to have a quiet one as well. Yesterday we had visitors coming for lunch, so after taking Morgan swimming for an hour or so we busied ourselves getting ready for that. Marion and Les turned up around...
I’ve been meaning to work on a family tree for ages and did make a start a few years ago using software called MacFamily Tree. It has recently had an update to a new version which prompted me to have another look at our family tree. Adding Data The software is excellent with loads of...
Hot on the heels of our success with the Courgette Cake recipe, but still with a glut of courgettes, last night we baked some chocolate courgette cakes. They were once a gain a success, although not much good for aiding my weight loss! Here’s the recipe. 250g plain flour 375g caster sugar 65g cocoa powder...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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