Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
We’re only a couple of days into March, and therefore a couple of days into Spring, but nature is preparing. I managed to spend a few hours out in the garden at the weekend. There’s loads of work to do out there tidying up, weeding and cutting things back but I feel as though I’ve...
After what was supposed to be a recovery week training wise, it was back to it today with some hellish hill reps. Not that the preceding week was exactly restful thanks to lots and lots of work to do, both website design work and working at the University, which meant that in order to fit...
Fame for Morgan with a nice mention in the Spring edition of the Welsh Beekeeper Magazine. He could have at least tucked his ‘T’-shirt in!
On our way home at the weekend, we popped into Aquajardin near Gloucester to get some plants for my new tank. they didn’t quite have what we wanted so we came away with less than expected. Just one little pot of 1-2- Grow Eleocharis sp. mini and 1 pot of 1-2-Grow Staurogyne repens, along with...
Back to the fish tank and my ‘aquascaping’ project I’m afraid! There was a slight hiccup the other day when the cool RGB LED light strip that I had stuck to the back of the cabinet decided to come unstuck. Naturally gravity took over – it has a nasty habit of doing that – and...
I think I’m getting somewhere with this hardscaping. I had an idea in bed last night to try to build up some rocks at the back of the tank around the edges of the lighter coloured stream. I wanted to create the effect of a mountain stream emerging from a gorge, something we get a...
Well, after my usual early start with a hard hill rep run, swim and then a cycle in Machynlleth, it was back home for a well earned bacon sandwich and then back to the creation of my aquascape. First job was to spend an hour or so scrubbing all of the rocks we collected yesterday....
It has begun, today has been spent starting to get the new aquarium set up ready for my first forays into the world of the aquascape. First was the building of the cabinet, followed by positioning of the tank and getting things in place. Tank Specs. Tank: Aquatlantis Fusion 102cm x 40cm x 60xm, 188 litres...
The presence of a blank canvas thanks to my new Aquatlantis tank encouraged me to search the web for ideas on aquarium design which is when I came across the amazing world of aqua-scaping. The landscape style designs have astounded me and I’d love to build something along these lines, but don’t think I quite have...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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