Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
It was a sad day in our household yesterday due to the death of a pet frog… For those who don’t know, I used to be a zookeeper at Bristol Zoo and whilst I was there I adopted several exotic pets. These pets included 4 Whites Tree Frogs which I have had ever since. They...
Continuing on from my post yesterday about autumn being back to normal, the winds are continuing to batter us here in Wales. The weather station recorded a gust of 48.8 knots on Sunday (the strongest up until then), but this morning we have beaten that with a gust of 53.6 knots. (Thats 61.7 mph or...
Well, it has been a few years since we’ve had some proper autumnal storms, but things seem to be back to normal this year. The last two weeks or so have seen depression after depression tracking across the UK, the charts have been full of isobars and we’ve been experiencing typically autumnal stormy weather. The...
Bow Street, a few miles SE of us was hit by a Tornado last night…Apparently there were winds of up to 130 mph, trees were uprooted, steel portacabins lifted up and thrown onto childrens playgrounds, caravans overturned, chimney stacks blown off and a roof pretty badly damaged. According to John Mason a local expert in...
It is exactly one year since I set up the Borth Weather Station and as usual at this time of year we have been experiencing some weather, so it was quite fitting that this morning we broke one of the ‘all time’ records as far as the weather station is concerned with a maximum gust...
Of course, as soon as I posted an entry about the lovely colours of the trees this year, the wind picked up and blew them all off before I had chance to take any photos. There were one or two left though for a quick shot from the van as I drove by!
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but the autumn colours this year are the best I can remember. Driving along the roads at the moment looking at all the trees in their autumn splendor is a joy. It must be an effect of the warm dry summer and warm autumn that we have...
It’s that time of year again, the clock go back to GMT, the end of BST, the nights are darker, the mornings temporarily lighter and those that suffer from Seasonal Affective Diorder (SAD) start getting grumpy. I actually quite like this time of year, once again things are all changing and those long evenings snuggled...
I’ve always been a bit of a fan of bonsai trees and used to have a really nice indoor bonsai tree until Robbie, our cat, ate it! I’ve now got a new one though as a present for my duties as best man at Brad and Eloise’s wedding last weekend. The new tree is a...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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