Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I’m really keen to take some photos through our new telescope. I knew this wouldn’t be easy. The world of astro-photography is complex with many diverse techniques that need to be learnt, practised and perfected. Some of the photos you can achieve are truly outstanding, but I think it will be many years before we...
The weather has been terrible here since Christmas, but we really wanted to get Morgan out for a decent ride on his new bike. We had a quick spin around Nant yr Arian on it on Boxing Day and he’d been over to the beach on it, but really needed an easy, long ride to...
It may be cold, wet and dreary out there, but its Christmas for the Homey Bees too, so we’ve given ourbees a Christmas treat this week in the form of some fondant. Having not fed bees in the winter before we weren’t too sure how to do it but I gave it a go with...
Thanks to the strikes yesterday, I was forced to have a day off as the schools were closed and Morgan was at home with me. We therefore decided to head off in search of some geocaches and lunch in Machynlleth. First stop was a cache called ‘The Manx Connection’ I had a pretty good idea where it...
We had an amazing view of the Gallilean Moons of Jupiter last night. It was a lovely, clear, still night and Jupiter could be clearly seen in the South South East, shining brigher than all the stars around it. We could see the Milky Way too, but with a pair of standard binoculars it was...
Halloween may have been last weekend, but that didn’t stop is going on a spooky night trail in some nearby woods last night. I won’t tell you which woods as I don’t want to give anything away, but we found out about it through aber-cachers, a local geocaching website that I set up a few...
It was the last day of Morgan’s Half term yesterday – actually it was another inset day, but it was the last day that he was home with me. We had more geocaching planned and this time it was cycle-caching with a ride along the Ystwyth Trail. We started at Rhydyfelin, rode up the little...
Well done to all those who competed in the first ever INTRtri Autumn Aquathlon yesterday. It was a great event with good conditions. I hope you put in a time to be proud of. I was pleased with my result and you can read my race report here: INTRtri Autumn Aquathlon Race Report. Once I’d...
Just another photo of the Narcissus in the conservatory seeing as it’s looking so nice. I thought it might brighten up an otherwise grey day.
Anna joined us for our geocaching expedition on Friday. We started off with a fun litle cache in the woods just outside of Talybont called ‘Lambda’ and then stopped off for another quick cache and dash in Bow Street, before heading into Aberystwyth where we stopped to look for a puzzle cache called ‘Sigma – 1854 –...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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