Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Following up from my earlier post about planting palm trees in Ynyslas, I’ve noticed today that you can even buy them via Amazon! No need to even leave your house, just order them online and have them delivered to your door. Definitely no excuses now! Amazing what you can buy online these days.. I don’t...
I’m on a mission to turn the main road through Ynyslas into an avenue of palm trees! OK, it’ll probably never happen but I think it would look nice. One of the things I like about the Isle of Man is the number of palm trees there. More accurately they are actually Cordyline Australis which...
The weather has been a little mad lately. Yesterday we had monsoon conditions in the morning with around 12mm of rain in an hour or so, but by the afternoon it was glorious sunshine and I even fell asleep in the hammock out in the garden! Perfect weather for the garden to grow though, although...
Summer is here (I wonder how long for). Friday was gloriously sunny and reached 24.6ºC (A May record since the weather station records began). Yesterday was similarly sunny and reached 23.8ºC. Today looks as though it will be a scorcher too. As usual I got up early (5am ish), answered e-mails and did a little...
Whilst Kia and Shaun were here earlier in the week and the sun was shining I decided to put up a hammock in the garden. Morgan of course decided he loved it as well and wants it up all the time now. I have to admit though, it is quite comfortable and if I still...
I haven’t mentioned the garden for a while. It was looking lovely last year, but for various reasons that I won’t go into here (not yet anyway) it was destroyed over the winter. The Pergola was ripped down, most of the grass has gone and many plants were uprooted, squashed or otherwise met an untimely...
The latest addition to our garden are some Goji Berry Bushes. Apparently they are very drought tolerant don’t mind sandy soil and can cope with wind and coastal conditions… We’ll see as we do have slightly extreme coastal conditions here. If they survivie then we may be able to create a nice little fruting hedge...
I feel as though I’ve had a fairly productive weekend here. There was enough wind for windsurfing on Saturday, but my chest was still a little sore so I started the day by installing our two new water butts instead. All went to plan and the fact that it was raining whilst I installed them...
So much for my wind resistant plants!! All had been going well and the new pergola was looking lovely with a very luxurious growth of Polygonum and Solanum that I had planted in June. In fact we had been surprised by the growth which was of course due in part by the warm, wet and...
As we’ve already mentioned elsewhere in this series our garden here on the coast of West Wales experiences the extremes of most parameters that determine what will and what won’t grow. The soil is no exception. Most gardens have soil that range from a nice middle-of the road loam through towards either the heavy clayey...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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