Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
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...
I don’t think I’ve heard one for a while, but we have a Cuckoo in the garden at the moment which is a nice surprise. We hear it all the time and have seen on perched on the telephone wires now and then. I know they aren’t particularly rare and aren’t difficult to hear or...
Well, part of the deal that allowed me to go on holiday recently was that Anna was able to have a couple of weekends to herself, so she has been off to Shrewbury where she met her Mum while I have been on Dad duties looking after Morgan. Yesterday wasn’t too nice weather wise so...
Well, its been a while but we finally had some LBJ (Little Brown Jobs) visitors to the bird table today. A Robin and some sparrows to be precise. Nothing too exciting but it is a start.!
Last week while my parents were here we decided to get a bird table! We had been meaning to do so for a while as Morgan likes to watch the birds out of the window, and we quite like it too. Most were too expensive, but thanks to ‘cheap charlies’ we found one in our...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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Hiking / The Welsh Nuttalls / Wales
Bog and Bilberry Bashing in the Berwyns – More Nuttalls Bagged
Sunday, June 1st, 2025
