Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
We broke up our drive back from the Big Cow Triathlon with a stop at the Dingle Garden just outside of Welshpool. This is probably my favourite garden and I love everything about it, except the fact that mine will never ever look anywhere near as good as this. It was the perfect little stop...
As part of my rest day before the Big Cow Triathlon we had decided to go for a walk in Salcey Forest which wasn’t far from the Hotel we were staying at in Northampton. We hadn’t been there before so we went armed with some geocaches to look for and planned to walk along the...
Ann from the Aberystwyth Bee Keepers Association gave me some goose eggs last time we were up at her house. We went and took them straight from the goose nest and Morgan got to see a day old hatchling while we were there. They are huge, much bigger than a hens egg, and Ann suggested...
After successfully performing artificial swarms for the first time in our beekeeping careers last weekend, this weekend we had to return to the hives to continue the process. Although we had divided the colonies between two hives to produced a parent colony and a swarmed colony, the next step was to move the hive containing the...
At last, the weather has changed and the sun has come out. The temperature even got into double figures today, although according to the weather station it did only hit 14.6°C. It’s supposed to be nice all week as well and will make it into the high teens temperature wise. I managed to spend a...
Busy Busy Busy – We’ve been so busy lately that I’ve just realised I haven’t blogged about many of the things we did last weekend, let alone what we did yesterday. As well as the bee-keeping, moth trapping and planet watching that I did blog about, we also spent Sunday outdoors. First we went to...
It’s still really cold here, crazy cold in fact for the time of year. Daytime temperatures are only just breaking into double figures and with a cold wind more often than not it feels freezing. We’ve got the fire on again at the moment despite the fact that we are well into the second half...
We had a good couple of days at the weekend. The sun came out on Friday and I managed to get one step ahead of the weekend by mowing the lawn and tidying the garden. Not a bad start to the weekend and with no Scouts & Explorers this week we had some time to...
The second half of our night-time science experiments didn’t go so well. After the success of viewing Saturn, we put the moth trap out. I wasn’t expecting loads of moths in the trap as it has been so cold lately, but with clear, fairly dark skies, light winds and temperatures only dropping to 6°C I...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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