Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Despite the weather, we had a good time on our recent caravan holiday to South Wales. We stayed at the huge Park Dean caravan site at Trecco Bay. Not normally our sort of thing but we had a cheap deal and it turned out good. The caravan itself was very modern and much bigger than...
Guess what, the third day of our holiday dawned, cold wet and miserable again, although after breaksfast there was a brief respite from the rain so we went to Kenfig Dunes for a wander around the National Nature Reserve. It’s kind of a home from home as we live amongst the dunes of Ynyslas but...
The second day of our holiday dawned in now traditional fashion, very cold, very wet and downright miserable. No playing on the beach for us so off we headed to Swansea to find a place called Plantasia. Plantasia was a little odd as it was housed within a shopping centre. Unfortunately most of the shops...
The first day of our holiday and like the rest of the week it dawned cold, wet and miserable. We therefore headed off to Cardiff and ‘Techniquest’, a kids science museum. It was really good with loads of hands on displays and lots of interesting and fun things for Morgan and for me and Anna....
It looked like a nice morning for a walk today, the winds were light, the sun was shining and I’d heard that there were some Orange Underwing moths (Archiearis parthenias) around at a local nature reserve. Apparently they can be seen flying around birch tress in the sunshine during March. I had a good look,...
As usual, Tuesday seems to be my day of fitness training. I’ve just done a turbo trainer session and will be off to circuit training and then swimfit this evening. The Turbo Trainer sessions are going well. Last night I did a 3:2 minute interval session where I did 7 repetitions of 3 minutes @...
I’ve just spent the weekend in Conwy. I decided to head up to North Wales as there was a North Wales Moth Recorders’ Meeting at the Pensychnant Conservation Centre. I travelled there on Saturday, stopping on the way to do a few geocaches and arrived in plenty of time for the meeting. After a coffee...
Morgan seems to like his birthday presents so far. We haven’t been out with the metal detector yet, but he has played with all of the accessories that go with his ‘pirate castle’ and seem to like those. The Monkey character that protects the rainforest hasn’t shut up since he got it and he’s had...
Morgan has always wanted to go on holiday in a caravan. Don’t ask me why he has this ambition, he’s nearly 5 and I have no idea why he does half the things he does! For example he spends lots of his time running around thinking he’s a Power Ranger, obviously he’s not, he just...
My parents are here for a long weekend so we went out for Sunday lunch yesterday. We had heard that the carvery at the Marine in Aberystwyth was good so after a walk along the prom to build up an apetite off we went for lunch. All of the reports of it being good were...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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