Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Sat in the living room yesterday morning I saw a big flock of Curlew fly over the house and land in the field behind us. I was then determined to get some photos of these and the other coastal and estuarine birds around here. After a quick visit to A&E we went for a walk...
We’re having a lovely winter here. Snow on the hills, frost on the dunes and some gorgeous clear moonlit nights. I should have gone for a walk in the hills for New Years Eve really as the moon was full and the snow looked lovely. It even looked quite wintry here on the coast this...
As well as attracting lots of wildlife to your garden, a wildlife garden also gives you an excuse to be a bit lazy with the gardening from time to time! It isn’t just about bird boxes and ponds; just as important are areas of unkempt garden and piles of logs and sticks. We don’t have...
Although we live in a rural location surrounded by countryside, we don’t get a huge variety of birds to our feeders. It isn’t surprising really as the countryside around is is fairly sparse. There are few trees, and the ones that do grow are small and stunted and the number of different habitats that we...
I mentioned HDR photography a while back and the fact that I’d like to give it a go. Well, I’ve just been looking at Trey Ratcliff’s HDR photos and they are amazing. The thing with HDR photos is that often they can be overdone and look surreal. There’s nothing wrong with that, afterall photography is...
Just been checking out some of Trey Ratcliffs’ ‘Stuck in Motion video and think they are pretty cool. Basically it is slow mo filmed on a fairly cheap (although not that cheap) digital stills camera that can shoot at 300 frames per second. The footage is filmed at this speed and then slowed down to...
We had a break in the ‘Wild West Wales Weather‘ yesterday so though it would be a good idea to get out there and make the most of it. I went for a quick mountain bike ride around the Summit Trail at Nant yr Arian. I’m still struggling a little on the hills but it...
As an owner of several geocaches, it is my duty to maintain them every now and then, so yesterday I went out in the rain to visit a few of my boxes dotted around the local countryside. The first was along the Afon Clettwr, where I had a nice, peaceful walk along the riverbank in...
What a day!! After a dry, still evening for the Machynlleth lantern parade yesterday, the wind and rain arrived in earnest this morning. Perfect for me as I had intended to go windsurfing. With gusts to 52.6 knots recorded on the Borth and Ynyslas Weather Station it looked as though it was going to be...
I haven’t done much geocaching lately, but need to get out and maintain some of my geocaches that need attention… Hopefully this weekend if time permits. Meanwhile, one of my geocoins has been continuing on its mission to visit as many UK counties as possible and notched up a new one, West Sussex, yesterday. A...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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