Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
The sunshine really does make things nicer. Borth and Ynyslas are nice all the time, even when it’s blowing a gale and pouring with rain it has a certain, exposed charm all of its own, but when the sun is out and ‘the living is easy’ it can’t be beat. These last few days have...
Well, I had a busy day yesterday and despite initial reports I did actually do some work. In fact I did a bit first thing in the morning along with some housework, but as the wind was once again blowing a hoolie I was on the beach rigging up my windsurfing kit by about 8:30am....
Call them what you will, blueberries, bilberries, blaeberries, whortleberries, whinberries, winberries, windberries, wimberries, myrtle blueberries and lots of other things too such as ground hurts or fraughan depending on where you are. They are either all the same or all very closely related species of the Vaccinium genus and we picked a whole load of...
Just another post about our trip to Dartmoor and a visit to Buckfast where we went to the Butterfly and Otter sanctuary. The butterflies were spectacular and we followed a keeper around whilst he was feeding the otters so got to know a little of the history of each otter as he gave a talk...
As well as visiting Plymouth during family holidays as a child, we always used to spend a day swimming in the river at Hexworthy on Dartmoor. During our recent camping trip to Dartmoor, it was therefore my duty to introduce Morgan to the joys of playing in the river. We went wild swimming at Hexworthy...
Whilst in Plymouth, Morgan and I had a ‘ride’ on a London Eye style big wheel perched atop the Hoe. The wheel was almost 60 metres in height, twice as high as Smeatons tower so provided some amazing views down onto the Hoe and out across both Plymouth Sound and the city of Plymouth. It...
Everyone knows that my memory for past events isn’t great and when family conversations turn to things we used to do I seem to have lived in a separate world to everyone else, never quite being able to remember anything that we did. I do however remember family holidays to Plymouth and more importantly some...
No trip to Dartmoor would be complete without a stop to say hello to the ponies and a climb up the occasional Tor. We therefore made our trip last week complete by doing both. There were ponies everywhere so stopping for a quick ‘hello’ was easy. There were also plenty of tors that looked inviting,...
After a weekend at Newnham Park near Plymouth for the Bontrager 24/12 2011 MTB event, Anna, Morgan and I packed up our tent and headed off to Dartmoor for our annual family holiday. The plan was to camp for a few nights on the edge of Dartmoor and explore some places that I used to...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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