Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
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)!...
Our tree looks nice this year, just the right size for the corner of the room and nicely decorated too. Hopefully it won’t drop its needles as well. Morgan had fun helping us decorate it last night and we have lights in the window and around the deck too. I’m quite into it this year...
The date was set, Sunday Dec 17th 2006, location: Brockley Coombe, Fountain Forestry, weapons and silly hats at the ready, the annual Christmas tree hunt was on: Preparation is of course the key to a successful hunt so the first task was to get the whole family suited and booted. It was then off deep...
I’ve had another busy weekend, whilst Anna, Morgan and Pat sheltered from the worst of the weather at home. Saturday was certainlly windy and rainy at times, and Steve nad I had a good days windsurfing here at Ynyslas. As Anna’s mum (Pat) is here, we then made the most of the opportunity of some...
I’m sure I must have mentioned this elsewhere before, but one of the downsides to living here on the edge of Wales is the quality of the utility services. Don’t get me wrong I wouldn’t live anywhere else and the problems and shortfalls we face are a small price to pay. We don’t really live...
You just can’t beat a nice early morning walk along the beach.
It’s been a busy week here in our simple life of luxury.. We decided as winter was approaching to add to the luxury and splash out on a tumble drier. We of course bought the only ‘A’-rated model available which apparently uses 50% less energy than other models even though on that setting it takes...
I just love living here in West Wales and working from home. After seeing Anna and Morgan off to work / nursery I set to work at my computer, sitting in my office with my slippers on and a cup of coffee. I actually got quite a bit done this morning but as the wiond...
It was our 2nd wedding anniversary yesterday, so we took the day off and headed down the coast to Aberaeron for lunch and an ice-cream by the harbour. It seems mean to leave Morgan in nursery and have a day to oursleves, but once every now and then it is quite nice and it makes...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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