Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
It was Good Friday, I had a pre-race lurgy, Morgan was exhausted after a term of school, Anna was having a well-earned day off and we were all being lazy at home so I decided to try another recipe from our Volcanic Kitchens cookbook. This time it was Rotorua Mud Cake but there was no...
Anna was out most of the day on Saturday, first taking the cat to the vet and then playing in a concert with the Aberystwyth Silver Band. Whilst she was out I had the urge to bake a cake… That’s the trouble with watching Saturday Kitchen! It was a cold and very wintry late March...
Guess I’d better spend the day clearing up the carnage made by Anna and Morgan whilst making pancakes last night!. Looks as though they had fun though and there were a pile of pancakes waiting for me when I got back for circuits and swimfit. Mmmmmm.
While we were in New Zealand we came across a lemon, honey and ginger cordial drink. You could have it hot, cold, as an ice-cream topping, with fizzy water…however you fancy and it was lovely. We tried to find some to bring home but after seeing it everywhere couldn’t seem to find any on our...
Ann from the Aberystwyth Bee Keepers Association gave me some goose eggs last time we were up at her house. We went and took them straight from the goose nest and Morgan got to see a day old hatchling while we were there. They are huge, much bigger than a hens egg, and Ann suggested...
I have always avoided making Yorkshire puddings as I seemed to think they were too difficult to get right but thanks to Jamie Oliver and a recipe in his Ministry of Food book I now have a fail safe method which works every time. Even Morgan can make them. I’ve adjusted the recipe so that...
It was the first weekend of the half term holidays and Morgan announced that he wanted to do some baking and who am I to argue with him. I left it all up to him and he decided on a recipe for Moon Rocks. We made some moon rocks with dried cherries in, asteroids with...
Making your own yoghurt – who’d have thought it could be so easy, so cheap and so delicious! We’ve been making our own yoghurt for a while now and I can’t seem to get enough of it. We started off with an Easiyo kit which is essentially a 1 litre plastic pot to make the...
The Mr. Potato Head Easter Egg that Morgan had for Easter didn’t last long – it was made of chocolate afterall! Morgan enjoyed making him though so Anna kept the packaging that the various body parts came in, melted up some more chocolate and poured it into to moulds to make new body parts. Here...
It’s probably a little late in the year but Morgan and I picked a “pint of blueberries” up in the hills on Sunday. There were still plenty around, especially since I would normally think about picking them in July rather than half way through August, and we had no trouble finding enough for our needs....
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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