Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Another busy bank holiday weekend for us, but we did manage to squeeze in the finding of a quick geocache in order to get the 15 years of geocaching souvenir. In order to get this you simply had to find any geocache on May 2nd or 3rd. The reason for this was that on May...
Well, I did predict a war against algae and the war has started. The reduction in photoperiod that I mentioned in my last Aquascaping update doesn’t seem to have worked. It may have slowed the algal growth, but it is still getting worse. The algae seems to be coating the rock and pebbles, but there is also...
The garden is beginning to take shape. I did a little more work on it at the weekend, but the jobs that need to be done still keep mounting up, I just don’t seem to be able to find the time for gardening at the moment. The plants don’t seem to mind though and things...
We managed to inspect our bees in our out apiary at the weekend. It was a little too cold with a keen Easterly wind here at the coast, but it was better in the hills so we took a quick look. It was nice to see so much blackthorn flowering around the hive and the bees...
Things seem OK in the new fish tank and the Aquascaping experiment continues. The pump that pumps water up over the top of the LED’s is a little bit noisier than I would like but other than that the hardware seems OK and less than a week after flooding things seems to have settled down...
Another lovely day in Dorset and today we had a trip to Lulworth Cove planned, so after breakfast we set off and soon arrived at Lulworth Cove where we parked in the car park which was quiet had a quick look around the visitor centre and then headed off across the beach which we had virtually...
Wednesday morning dawned bright and sunny once again we had no sleep as the room was so hot. I therefore went out for an early morning walk into the reeds of the Lodmor Country Park as the sun rose. I returned with croissants for breakfast for Anna and Morgan. We complained about the ridiculous heat...
As promised, on our return from Dorset it was finally time for the ‘Fusion’ Aquascape flooding. I’d been working on the new aquascape for a couple of months and started this out using a method called the Dry Start Method that I had never tried before. Essentially you grow some of the plants, especially those...
After a weekend at my parents house for Easter we spent most of Easter Monday heading south towards Dorset. Cerne Abbas Giant We took quite a random route to get there and stopped off at Cerne Abbas to take a look at the giant there which Morgan found quite amusing. We had a nice picnic...
It may only be April, but it was time for our family holiday to Portland in Dorset. Why Portland in Dorset? Well, I was planning on competing in what looked like a nice sprint distance triathlon there on Sunday 12th, and it was the area that I studied for for PhD. looking at the palaeoecology...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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