Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Just got back from driving around here and there, doing a few geocaches and such like and Ynyslas seems to be the place with the most snow around here. Odd that as being next to the sea it is usually the place with the least snow, but not this time. Delivery drivers have been saying...
I haven’t mentioned the garden for a while, but it’s still looking OK. Whilst working on it over the summer one of the things I tried to do was put some plants in that would provide some winter colour. I know we’re not quite into winter yet but it has been pretty frosty out there...
It’s ‘Feed the Birds Day’ on Saturday 30th October. Organised by the RSPB, Feed the Birds Day is supposed to remind us about all the things we can do to help birds and other garden wildlife through the winter. The RSPB are running lots of Feed the Birds Day events across the UK, which includes an event at our...
Don’t worry, as well as buying plants from the garden centre at the weekend, whilst working in the garden to plant them out I also made the most of this years growth and got some things for free. First up I sorted out the compost bins and got loads of bag fulls of compost. Some...
Following my swim in Lake Bala at the weekend we took a drive through mid Wales to our favourite garden centre, Derwen Garden Centre just outside Welshpool. We had lunch there and then wandered around and as usual spent a little more money than expected! The Maze had disappeared though which is a bit of...
Those of you who feed the birds will know that it can get quite expensive. They certainly get through it quick enough at certain times of the year – they’re getting through it pretty quickly at the moment – and quality bird food isn’t cheap. It’s nice then when you get something back from it other than...
Time to cook something with a little more kick than usual!
With a title like that this post will no doubt get lots of hits, but it’s not what you’re thinking! It’s just that I managed to get a photo of a bird using the water feature and it just so happened to be a Great Tit. There has been quite a few of them on...
The Sweet Peas are a little late, but at least they are adding some much needed colour to the garden.
It looks as though the garden has just about survived the recent onslaught from the approach of autumn. Everything looks a little worse for wear and most things are a little windburnt but nothing has been destroyed. Despite the onslaught the courgette plants have of course continued to supply us with a steady stream of...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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