Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Our first proper day on Islay and it looked like nice weather so we headed off to explore. First stop was Machir Bay where I was surprised to find some surf. It is a lovely, exposed beach which as with most places in the Hebrides has a wild and remote feel to it. After a...
Day three of our holiday and it was goodbye to Mingulay B&B and a drive across Arran to Lochranza for a ick boat crossing to the Kintyre Peninsula. We stopped inLamlash bay for a quick geocache and again in Locranza next to the distillery for another geocache then it was straight ohnto to little ferry...
Day 2 of our holiday dawned bright and sunny so after a nice breakfast at the B&B we headed off to the south of Arran and a play on the beach. Morgan loves the beach and was soon digging in the sand and playing in the water which felt cold even to me. Anna of...
You may think from the title of this post that it will be all about Morgan and how he is 2 already and growing up faster than you could imagine…. Well, it isn’t, it is all about me, me, me!! I’m sure it wasn’t that long ago that I was a student and not long...
Sometimes my work as a website designer puts me in touch with all sorts of people, and today one of my tasks is to add a poem to website. Before doing so I listened to it and was pleasantly surprised, I’m not usually ‘into’ poetry but this was nice and it sums up ‘A simple...
I shouldn’t complain (and I’m not), as it is good as a freelancer to have lots of work on, but it does get in the way of life a bit!!… Busy, busy busy, no time to play!
Regular readers of this blog will know that one of the key factors that allow me to live a ‘Simple Life of Luxury‘ is the fact that I chose to turn my back on my geology training and become a freelance website designer. I guess there was never a conscious decision to become a website...
What a perfect day here. First up windsurfing in the estuary at Ynyslas with decent 25-35 knot winds and the sun shining and then a lovely walk in the hills near Plynlimon. The road up there is pretty scary at the best of time, but as I got towards the top there was loads of...
It’s time we planned a family holiday. We were thinking of going to Spain and staying at a friends villa in Estepona. I built the website for the villa so would get a little discount on the cost of staying there. but for some reason Spain never really got us that excited. Of course it...
As usual when I get a little project into my head I go a little OTT. If you hadn’t noticed my ‘project’ lately has been geocaching. Every chance I get I’m either looking up caches on geocaching.com or out there in the hills searching for little plastic boxes or chasing that FTF (First to Find)!...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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