Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I always enjoy gardening, especially the planning and landscaping of a garden, but here on the coast of West Wales, gardening of any type is challenging. We have to contend with poor soil (sand to be precise), strong winds and salty air. Coming up with any sort of a ‘garden’ is difficult and most people...
I used to be quite a good triathlete – But that was 20 years ago now and thing shave changed since then. I’m older, fatter, have less time to train and much much slower. Despite this somehow my sister (Trudi) has talked me into doing a triathlon in May in order to raise money for...
Despite the weather, we had a good time on our recent caravan holiday to South Wales. We stayed at the huge Park Dean caravan site at Trecco Bay. Not normally our sort of thing but we had a cheap deal and it turned out good. The caravan itself was very modern and much bigger than...
Guess what, the third day of our holiday dawned, cold wet and miserable again, although after breaksfast there was a brief respite from the rain so we went to Kenfig Dunes for a wander around the National Nature Reserve. It’s kind of a home from home as we live amongst the dunes of Ynyslas but...
The second day of our holiday dawned in now traditional fashion, very cold, very wet and downright miserable. No playing on the beach for us so off we headed to Swansea to find a place called Plantasia. Plantasia was a little odd as it was housed within a shopping centre. Unfortunately most of the shops...
The first day of our holiday and like the rest of the week it dawned cold, wet and miserable. We therefore headed off to Cardiff and ‘Techniquest’, a kids science museum. It was really good with loads of hands on displays and lots of interesting and fun things for Morgan and for me and Anna....
If you haven’t noticed the weather this week has been atrocious and I can only think it must have been our fault. We were off on a family caravan holiday in Porthcawl. As I started loading the car on Monday, the heavens opened and I got soaked. It then continued to rain pretty much non-stop...
I’ve just had a clear out in order to fit some new toys in the shed…. There was more in there than I was expecting, some of it will be going on eBay – Two kitesurf board and at least one sailboard, there are a few old sails and booms that will be going to...
Morgan seems to like his birthday presents so far. We haven’t been out with the metal detector yet, but he has played with all of the accessories that go with his ‘pirate castle’ and seem to like those. The Monkey character that protects the rainforest hasn’t shut up since he got it and he’s had...
Morgan and I made use of our new RSPB membership and went for a cold winters walk at Ynyshir this morning. Lots of Canada Geese about but Morgan was a little cold so we couldn’t sit and look for birds for too long. I did manage a couple of photos of a bird that I...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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