Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
We like to stop off on the way home from my parents and generally do so at a garden centre. It gives us chance to maybe buy some plants or other things and have some lunch. It also breaks the journey up a little so that we aren’t driving non-stop for 3½ hours. The trouble...
We didn’t really have much planned for Bank Holiday Monday. For a start I kind of forget about Bank Holidays as I don’t usually ‘go into’ work on a Monday but work from home. However, Anna and Morgan were off so it seemed as though we should do something. Running around Ynyslas I was up...
After our poppy making at the Wonderwool Wales Festival on Sunday morning, we drove home and collectd Morgan on what was now a gorgeous day. It looked likely to be the last day like this for a while though as the weather was set to take a turn back towards winter. The sunshine and temperatures...
Bank Holiday weekend and a chance to do some gardening. What’s more, I’m pleased to say that I’ve managed to get on top of things out in the garden and all is looking well. There’s not much to see at the moment but things are well on their way. The Lawn The lawn has been mowed...
Spring is here and the garden is bursting into life. We’ve had a lot of rain though so much of it is still under-water. This has been causing issues with our plumbing as well as preventing me from doing any work in the garden. The water feature has quite a pond surrounding it at the...
At last, a sunny, not windy day and a chance to inspect the bees. It still wasn’t warm mind with temperatures around 11ºC here at Ynyslas but we decided to have a quick look at the bees anyway. There was a feeling of Spring in the air with flowers out in the garden and people...
It must be about a year since we were sat in the Great Hall at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre listening to a performance by the various childrens orchestra’s from the area. Once again we were back listening to them on Tuesday evening. I’d had to come into work earlier in the day for a workshop...
It was the 2017 Dyfi Dash triathlon on Sunday. I wasn’t racing (I did do a kayak Time Trial the day before though), but we were all marshaling at the event instead. As seems to be the norm for the Dyfi Dash, it was a cold, windy day but at least it wasn’t raining. We...
What a day! I spent most of Saturday at the Brass Extravaganza in Aberystwyth. This has been a few months in planning and a lot of hard work behind the scenes but the day was finally here and fingers crossed “touch wood” everything would run smoothly. Youth Competition The Brass Extravaganza started off with a Youth...
Morgan and I tried some Triple Treasure Hunting in Aberystwyth on Tuesday. Triple Treasure Hunting Our Triple Treasure Hunting included Geocaching Pokémon Hunting Searching for Isaac Sweet Shop tokens Isaac Sweet Shop Tokens Isaac’s, the locally run sweet shop in Aberystwyth have hidden a whole load of tokens around town for the 12 days of...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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