Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
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...
After what seemed like the end of summer yesterday and a very autumnal feeling day, today was a little warmer, much drier and there was still some wind so I had no option but to go windsurfing. I took my GoPro camera with me of course and got some nice footage of a decent session...
There’s lots going on at Ynyshir RSPB reserve at the moment. Spring Watch will be coming from there in a couple of weeks so it is all go getting things ready for the production. A studio is being set up overlooking the lake and various nest boxes are being modified to accept cameras – I...
Llwyncelyn garden in Glandyfi was open on Sunday as part of the National Garden Scheme, so we had a little family outing to visit it. The National Garden Scheme sees provate gardens all over the country open in aid of charity and I’m sure many people go along for a nose as much as anything...
The Mr. Potato Head Easter Egg that Morgan had for Easter didn’t last long – it was made of chocolate afterall! Morgan enjoyed making him though so Anna kept the packaging that the various body parts came in, melted up some more chocolate and poured it into to moulds to make new body parts. Here...
The sea temperature is gradually warming up, it still isn’t warm at about 10ºC but it’s warm enough to get in for a swim with my Triathlon Wetsuit on and the warm sunny days have made the sea look quite inviting. I had a nice swim at Ynyslas last Thursday, just a straight swim down...
Morgan had a Mr. Potato Head Easter Egg for Easter. Pretty cool we think. It came with an egg and various chocolate face parts and some chocolate buttons. The instructions said to melt the buttons in your hand and use them to glue the face parts onto the egg. We were a little less messy...
Hope everyone had a nice Easter? We did, the Easter Bunny came and left Morgan a nice Easter Egg Hunt to go on so he headed out into the garden in his dressing gown to find the eggs. It was a lovely morning out there and he seemed to have fun deciphering the clues and...
Our new conservatory is now completed. It took a little longer than originally planned and there were a few little niggles towards the end to sort out but Mid Wales Windows who built it for us were quick to address them and it is now all ours. We’ve been spending a lot of time in...
Following on from my recent post about tracking calories, diet and exercise with iPad apps, I thought I’d share my experiences of using one of these apps for a while and how it has affected my diet. This all came about over a steak, chips and sticky toffee pudding when a conversation with friends revealed that I ate more...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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