Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
It’s a shame the weekend is only 2 days long, especially with the weather we’ve been having. Saturday was glorious and we had a fairly lazy day in the garden. It’s not often that you can spend all day outside in shorts and a ‘T’-shirt around here, and over 12 hours in the sun seems...
Summer is here (I wonder how long for). Friday was gloriously sunny and reached 24.6ºC (A May record since the weather station records began). Yesterday was similarly sunny and reached 23.8ºC. Today looks as though it will be a scorcher too. As usual I got up early (5am ish), answered e-mails and did a little...
Whilst Kia and Shaun were here earlier in the week and the sun was shining I decided to put up a hammock in the garden. Morgan of course decided he loved it as well and wants it up all the time now. I have to admit though, it is quite comfortable and if I still...
What a perfect day.. Summer’s here so I was awake as soon as it got light just after 4am! I got up at 4.30am and did a few hours work on various website projects for Pixelwave Web Design, and then as everyone else stirred at around 7am I stopped for breakfast and got ready to...
I know it makes a change, but we’ve just had a lovely sunny bank Holiday weekend… One to make a note of as it usually rains on bank holidays! What’s more, we had visitors and had the day off so managed to enjoy the weather as well. My parents arrived early Sunday afternoon, with my...
In preparation for the Sleepless in the Saddle Mountain Bike race I’ve signed up for I ordered a new tent from Amazon the other day and it arrived this morning. Needless to say as it wasn’t raining I’ve put it up in the garden and no doubt now that Morgan has seen it we’ll be...
We had a great ride in the welsh hills yesterday. Only 3 of us in the end, although quite a few people from Ystwyth Mountain Bike Club sounded keen to join us (we just never quite got it organised) and the kite surfers just did the Summit Trail. Steve, BEFS and I did the first...
Now that the clocks have gone forward there is plenty of time for getting out and making the most of the light in the evenings. The weather was gorgeous yesterday so Anna, Morgan and I took a stroll across to the dunes. A recent report said that children don’t get to spend nearly as much...
It may only be March but it looks as though summer has arrived early, if if it is only short-lived. There was plenty of wind forecast for Saturday so the main plan for me was to go windsurfing whilst Anna took Morgan for a swimming lesson. Actually, I wa going to take him originally but...
We’ve recently returned from our holiday in Slovenia. We went to Kranjska Gora again and had a good time. The resort was a little busier than last time but we soon settled in and as before the hotel was lovely. Good rooms, good food and friendly staff… Although it was a little too warm!! Dave...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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