Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Sunday was a nice busy day for us – just for a change! As usual it started fairly early for me at around 6am when I got up, checked e-mails etc. and had some breakfast before heading off to Machynlleth in Anna’s Fiat 500 hire car for a run. My planned session was a fairly easy one...
There must be something wrong with Morgan – he didn’t want the cake mixture scrapings from the mixing bowl!! Not to worry, more for me. His tune soon changed once he got to smell the date cake cooking though and I’m not surprised as you’ve never smelt anything so nice. I’m salivating too whilst waiting...
Amongst the variety of stalls that the Borth 2nd Scouts run at the local summer charities fete is a bric-a-brac stall that we always find quite depressing. We’ve helped out with it for a few years now and it’s never that exciting. Don’t get me wrong, we are of course grateful for all donations to...
Just a quick photo to show you that the plants are growing well in our newly re-established aquarium. I’ve already had to cut them back and remove some a few times just to stop them getting too out of control and overgrown. There’s still a bit of a problem with algae though so we need...
Well, as predicted it was indeed a gorgeous day today, and after a solid 12 hours working in the garden my back is killing me and it’s time for a well-earned rest. I started off with a little bit of gardening at 6am this morning, doing quiet things like weeding so as not to wake...
It looks as though it’s going to be another gorgeous day. The sun is rising over the back garden and I can’t wait to get started. Gardening or the beach, which shall it be?
Well, the school holidays are over and we managed quite a bit of geocaching during them. We hit our goals of beating our monthly record and our consecutive days caching record too. We didn’t do any over the weekend so the last day of our consecutive days record was on Friday when Morgan and I popped into to...
It was our final day on the Isle of Man today so we only had the morning to play before catching the boat back. The weather was still cold at around 3°C and the wind had picked up to a nice force 6 easterly just in time for the ferry crossing! So as to continue...
Sunday was the final full day of our trip to the Isle of Man and we had several geocaching records that we could try to beat. Number of caches in a day – current record = 15 Number of consecutive days with finds – current record = 6 Most finds in a month – current...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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