Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Working from home means that I can’t commute to work on my bike. Well, I could but it wouldn’t do me or the hall carpet much good, so instead I went for a lunch time cycle today. Just a fast, flat blast out to Machynlleth and back and I was pleased to keep my average...
After an excellent day looking through the contents of my moth trap and geeking out on invertebrates on Cors Fochno (the bog behind our house), the sun was shining, there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, there was no wind and we were all starving. I therefore fired up the barbeque, picked some salad leaves...
Plans are a foot for a little meet up of the Ceredigion Moth Group on Saturday. It’s all fairly informal, just a get together to go through the contents of a couple of traps. Hopefully one from the dunes, one from the bog and my trap from the garden here. After that, we’ll probably have...
Yesterday was a good day, packed full of activities. I started off fairly early, sorting, counting and recording the contents of the moth trap. Nothing unusual in there and no new species, but 21 different species and 60 moths in total. As my ID skills improve I’m getting quicker at going through the contents of...
Morgan and I have just finished doing our RSPB Make Your Nature Count survey. We spent an enjoyable hour sat there watching the garden and chatting about the birds that we saw. It’s easy to do as all you have to do is record the highest number of each species you see at any one...
Morgan has suddenly decided that he wants to learn to surf. I had been careful not to push him too much towards surfing, but this is of course great news. He has a wetsuit and so far I’ve been taking him out using one of my ‘proper’ surfboards but I may well have to get...
Amazon.co.uk Widgets Continuing my research and plans to start beekeeping, I attended a meeting of the Aberystwyth & District Beekeepers Association on Sunday. It was a gorgeous day for it, hot sunny and still. We met at a members house where she has a number of beehives – probably abut 15 , plus chickens, geese,...
Just out of interest I thought I’d wear my Garmin Forerunner 305 heart rate monitor to bed last night to see what my resting heart rate was. I expected it to be fairly low, as it always seems pretty low compared to most people and thought it would somewhere around 40bpm, but I checked it...
It looks as though summer is here, if only for the weekend. Yesterday was hot and sunny with a light NE breeze in the morning and then a NW seabreeze in the afternoon. Not quite enough wind for windsurfing – even with big kit – so I had a nice MTB ride around the Summit...
Saturday in the ‘big smoke’ (or close to it) and Anna wanted to go to Ikea. It was nice day so on the way we stopped off at a couple of garden centres on the A38. The first was Eastwood Garden Centre which was a nice, well laid out independent garden centre with nice healthy...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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