Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Morgan and I had a nice little walk through the dunes earlier. We were actually wandering across to the beach to check out what was happening with the RSPB Shear Madness. Unfortunately there wasn’t anyone there so we couldn’t find out more about the Manx Shearwaters or let them know that I often see them when...
I’ve barely ever been to Shropshire properly before but we’ve just got back from a lovely weekend camping just outside of a little village called Marshbrook, not far from Church Stretton in the Shropshire Hills. We were there to do the CRC MTB-Marathon on Sunday (more on that in another post) but as part of...
Our hard work on the garden is beginning to pay off. As well as looking nice out there, we’ve already had some garden produce. As well as the strawberries we’ve had a few raspberries with plenty more on the way. The blackcurrants and red currants seem to have been striped by the birds, but we’re...
Our new Vango Icarus 600 6 man tent arrived on Friday. So, as is customary, we had to set it up in the garden over the weekend and sleep in it. We did so on Saturday which, also in customary style, turned out to be a wet and very windy night – Perfect tent testing...
We’ve managed to beat the birds to some of the soft fruit from the garden at last! Anna bought a single strawberry plant a couple of years ago and it has gradually been spreading around a small area of the garden. We have had strawberries on them before but had only managed to eat one...
We had a nice little trip to Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust reserve on Saturday. It was more of a family stroll and a play in the park for the children rather than a naturalists day out, but the sun was shining (most of the time) and we all had fun. It did start pouring...
Making your own yoghurt – who’d have thought it could be so easy, so cheap and so delicious! We’ve been making our own yoghurt for a while now and I can’t seem to get enough of it. We started off with an Easiyo kit which is essentially a 1 litre plastic pot to make the...
What a scorcher! It felt like summer yesterday and with Morgan off school and Anna having a day off work I decided to join them and we headed across to the beach first thing in the morning. Morgan and I headed off in the inflatable canoe whilst Anna sat on the beach relaxing and reading...
And here’s our second attempt. Obviously with more time, more patience and better battery charge in my camera we could improve on this. It was only meant to be a bit of fun and it kept Morgan occupied on a wet Bank Holiday Monday morning. Hope you like it.
I was trying to explain to Morgan how stop motion movies work and thought the best way to do it was to actually make one with him. Mind you, I’ve never made one before so it was a case of the blind leading the blind. We started off with a nice easy project, took the...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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