Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
The snow arrived as promised. It was pretty wild here this morning with blizzard conditions, but Morgan and I went out to play in it anyway… I’ll post some photos of that later. I then did some work and headed off to the hills with Sarah (from next door) around lunch time. We went to...
Things are getting a little colder, -4.8ºC here last night and it looks as though there is some significant snow on the way overnight tonight and into tomorrow morning. The Borth and Ynyslas live weather station has been displaying its little ‘snow is on the way icon’ since last night. It always amazes me how...
Dave Sarah and I had a good day out and a nice long walk yesterday. Two caches: Tarren Memorial Llaeron Earth Is It? 14 miles, lots of hills and some amazing views. As usual the photos don’t do justice. Click here for a full report of our day geocaching in Wales. We also found a...
Just a quick note to say that I’m in the process of building a little website aimed at promoting the ‘sport’ of geocaching in the Aberystwyth area. Aber-cachers.co.uk will be a comminuty site where local and visiting geocachers can plan trips, ask for advice and generally get to know each other. As well as covering...
It seems like ages ago that Anna and I first met… I guess it is quite a while, but one of the first places we went together was Dolgoch Falls. Under slightly strange circumstances we met a group of ‘hippies’ there for a party around a camp fire and slept out under the stars. It...
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...
The recreation ranger from the Forestry Commission has given me permission to hide some new geocaches so I’ve hidden them and published the cache logs at geocaching.com. They form the Watery Wales series which is a series of caches on the banks of lakes and streams in the Welsh Hills. Most are pretty easy to...
It never rains it pours… First I had a big swim last week after snapping a mast and had to ditch my boom at sea to get back in. On Saturday Steve trashed a sail whilst windsurfing at Borth and today my mast extension snapped leaving me with yet another big swim back to the...
The weather hasn’t been great and we had planned day out as a family along with Dave and Sarah from next door geocaching in the Welsh Hills on Saturday. Saturday dawned particularly wet, but if you don’t do anything around here because it is raining nothing would ever get done so we set off anyway....
Why oh why do these things always happen when miles from the shore on a cold winter day with no-one around? Ok, so maybe I shouldn’t go windsurfing on my own in such conditions, but the wind was a perfect 25-30 knots (Force 6-7) the sea looked like fun with some decent waves to play...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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Hiking / The Welsh Nuttalls / Wales
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