Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I wasn’t competing in the INTRtri St David’s Day Aquathlon at the weekend. Mainly because I didn’t want to, but also because it then means as a committee member of the club I could help out with marshalling on the day. I’m not that keen to compete simply because it is too early in the...
I’ve just finished the Spring edition of the Aberystwyth Beekeepers Association Newsletter. It’s a lot of work writing the content, editing it, sourcing content and images and then desktop publishing it all ready for the members but I quite enjoy it and I’m always pleased with the result. Best of all, the association members seem...
Shhh, don’t tell anyone but it hasn’t rained here for a while. In fact, I’ve just looked it up in the historic data section of the Borth and Ynyslas weather station that I run and it says that the last time it rained was on Valentines Day – That’s two whole weeks. The good news is that...
Anna and I, along with half of the Aberystwyth Beekeeping Association attending a lecture in the National Library on Wednesday. It was a lunchtime lecture so we all met up for dinner in the cafe first and then headed into the very nice lecture theatre. The lecture was titled ‘Plants for Bees‘ and was given...
Here you go, proof of the now quite old shrimp that has been living in out derelict fish tank for years. He / She doesn’t know what to do with himself / herself now that there is water, light, heating and such like in the tank and will be in heaven soon once the tank...
As you know from my recent post about resurrecting the fish tank, I like to do things a little differently. Rather than bubble air through the tank to aerate the water for the fish, I bubble carbon dioxide through the tank which promotes really lush plant growth and the plants in turn filter and aerate the water...
Amazon.co.uk Widgets You know me, I always have a few projects on the go, and at the weekend I started yet another! When we first built our house about 10 years ago I set up a nice planted aquarium. I don’t like to do things the ‘normal way’ so rather than have a tank with...
Christmas may only be a distant memory now, and my birthday was a couple of weeks before that, but one of my birthday presents was a Meade 15mm eyepiece for my Skywatcher 130 telescope. I have briefly used it once or twice since then but Sunday night was the first time I got to use it properly. This isn’t...
I really need to get out into the garden and start some Spring clearing; Dead wood needs cutting back, the shrubs and hedges all need a trim, moss, grass and weeds need removing from the flower beds, the water feature needs a clean and service, the beds and borders could do with a fork and...
Half term here again already, so after making camp chairs in the morning Morgan and I headed over to the beach with his kite and the GoPro. Last time we tried this it started pouring with rain. This time it was much better, the wind was better and there were even a few small patches...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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