Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Well, the weekend dawned dry and windless so I planned to go geocaching. I woke at 5am on Saturday morning so headed off early which allowed me to do the bulk of the uphill section before things warmed up. I drove to Dinas Mawwdwy and onto Cwm Cywarch where I parked up, put my boots...
Every cloud has a silver lining I guess.. I have been planning to hide some geocaches in some nearby hills where caches were a little thin on the ground for a few months now. I’d been waiting for the right weather to spend a day up there with Steve hiding the caches and it looked...
Whilst working in the garden the other day I spotted a geocacher finding my ‘On the Bog’ cache so had a little chat with him. he was an expat now living in America but was back here in Borth visiting family. It was good to see someone finding my cache, which as usual with this...
We had a nice day yesterday. First we took Morgan swimming, which is something we have neglected to do for ages. He loved it and got on really well. He was quite happy floating around with his armbands on and climbing onto the various floats that were scattered around the pool.He was reluctant to get...
Living out here in the sticks does mean that we don’t necessarily see various members of our family as often as we would otherwise. However, living by the sea does mean that as soon as the sun comes out and the weather warms up they suddenly all want to visit us!! My parents were here...
This was day 3 on Islay so we now had our bearings and knew where to go and what to do so were beginning to feel at home here. That is the nice thing about the Scottish islands, it doesn’t take long to really feel at home and almost as if you belong there. It...
Another decent day weather wise and we headed off to the end of the Rinns and Port Charlotte and Port Wemyss. Part of the plan was to see if we could get a fisherman to take us across to Orsay, but they were all already out at sea so we amused ourselves by wandering around...
Day 2 of our holiday dawned bright and sunny so after a nice breakfast at the B&B we headed off to the south of Arran and a play on the beach. Morgan loves the beach and was soon digging in the sand and playing in the water which felt cold even to me. Anna of...
We set off from Ynyslas bright and early at 5.30am with Morgan in his pyjamas and with only one stop on route arrived at Ardrossan with plenty of time to catch the earlier ferry to Arran. It was quite a long drive so 1 stop was pretty good going considering the fact that we had...
The Aber-Cachers travel Bug Race began at the weekend… If that sentence menas nothing to you, then Aber-Cachers is an open group for people who enjoy geocching in Wales. Geocaching is a form of treasure hunting using a GPS receiver to help you home in on the treasure cache. These caches generally have little items...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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