Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
During my drive to Conwy on Saturday morning I stopped off to do some geocaches. None of them were too extreme, being quick cache-and dashes by the side of the road, but it broke the journey up a little. The first was just a little way south of Conwy called ‘This Daughter became a Conwy...
I’ve just spent the weekend in Conwy. I decided to head up to North Wales as there was a North Wales Moth Recorders’ Meeting at the Pensychnant Conservation Centre. I travelled there on Saturday, stopping on the way to do a few geocaches and arrived in plenty of time for the meeting. After a coffee...
With the Mawddach Goldrush looming on Sunday I’m now taking it easy for the second half of this week so that I’m fresh for it. I did however have to do some bike maintenance earlier this week and whilst at it did a wiper seal service on my forks and a rear shock air can...
It has been ages since I’ve been geocaching. I’ve been out to repair or replace a few of my own caches now and then but hadn’t done any finding myself as I thought I’d have to travel to find any new ones. How wrong I was. I had a look at the Geocaching website yesterday...
Just a nice photo of a Wooded Knoll in the Dyfi Valley with snow-capped hills behind. Taken from the Ynsyhir RSPB reserve on Sunday.
Morgan and I made use of our new RSPB membership and went for a cold winters walk at Ynyshir this morning. Lots of Canada Geese about but Morgan was a little cold so we couldn’t sit and look for birds for too long. I did manage a couple of photos of a bird that I...
It was a lovely spring day yesterday. Still some snow on the ground and quite a bit on the hills, but the sun came out, the birds were singing, the winds were light and I ended up starting on the tasks that are needed to get the garden in shape after the winter. It is...
I did the Mawddach Goldrush as part of a team last year. For those who don’t know, it is a charity mountain bike event in Coed y Brenin organised by Mawddach Rotary Club Trust. The event involves three approximately 10 mile long laps on the Tarw Trail. I’m thinking of doing again this year, but...
Just a couple of photos of birds in the garden. There are a lot that I still need to photograph from the garden species list and I’m sure I can improve on some of these too, but here’s a female Chaffinch and a Blue Tit.
I know that for the best light you should really take photos early in the morning or in the evening, but at this time of year at these latitudes there can even be some fairly rich light at midday. I just wandered over to the beach for some fresh air. There wasn’t much going on...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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