Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I noticed yet another new geocache in the area on Wednesday. I took a look at it but it was a puzzle and as I was feeling ill I didn’t really have the brain power to solve it. I sent it to Anna as an e-mail and pretty soon she had an answer for me,...
I haven’t mentioned the garden for a while, but it’s still looking OK. Whilst working on it over the summer one of the things I tried to do was put some plants in that would provide some winter colour. I know we’re not quite into winter yet but it has been pretty frosty out there...
Seeing as Morgan has been keen to do some more geocaching recently I’ve been taking my Garmin Forerunner GPSr and my iPod with me on the school run so that we can find one or two caches on the way home from school. This system works well for paperless caching and means we don’t have...
Morgan has been keen to do some geocaches lately and as it’s a great excuse to get out into the great outdoors and have a bit of a walk I’ve been more than happy to take him. We started geocaching in September 2006 and at the time quite liked it as it took us to...
Morgan and I had a pleasant walk on Sunday morning and found a few geocaches too. It was a fairly cold, grey day but nice enough for an easy walk behind Bow Street. We started off doing a series of caches called ‘Borrick Blunder’ and listed as a geokid circular walk. Hidden by ‘nitroglysarine‘ they sounded...
Whilst doing a geocache overlooking the Dyfi Estuary I thought that as it is called ‘Estuary View’ I’d better take a photo of the view. So, here it is, a view of the Dyfi Estuary on a grey autumnal day. It’s quite a long image so it’ll look funny when you scroll it but you’ll...
Morgan and I have just got back from RSPB Ynyshir where we made a bird feeder for ‘Feed The Birds Day’ and did a Scavenger Hunt. The bird feeder was a simple upside-down paper cup with suet, mealworms and sunflower seeds. For the scavenger hunt we had 30 minutes to find the following: A feather...
It’s ‘Feed the Birds Day’ on Saturday 30th October. Organised by the RSPB, Feed the Birds Day is supposed to remind us about all the things we can do to help birds and other garden wildlife through the winter. The RSPB are running lots of Feed the Birds Day events across the UK, which includes an event at our...
It looks as though today is going to be the nicest day of the Half Term week as far as the weather goes and Morgan was at home with me. So, after doing some gardening we headed off to search for some geocaches – something we hadn’t done for ages. First stop was the a...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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