Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
We spent a nice evening courtesy of Aber Kayakers messing about on the water with the Scouts on Friday. The hot humid weather with thunderstorms threatening was just perfect and the gravel pits in Cwm Rheidol certainly looked inviting..As usual there was a fair bit of time spent sorting the Scouts out with buoyancy aids,...
Frequent shoppers in Aberystwyth’s Morrisons might think that I’m up to something as I was fund-raising there on Friday last week and then again on Tuesday this week. Friday’s fundraising was with the Scouts, doing a skipping challenge for the British Heart Foundation and bag-packing to raise money for the Scout Group. Tuesday’s Find-raising was...
Just to prove that we do try to be a little ‘Scouty’ with the Scouts now and then, here’s a few compasses they made out of pebbles the other day whilst we were working on their ‘Navigator’ badge with them.
After what was supposed to be a recovery week training wise, it was back to it today with some hellish hill reps. Not that the preceding week was exactly restful thanks to lots and lots of work to do, both website design work and working at the University, which meant that in order to fit...
After a training morning on Sunday and a Beehive Re-location, our day was still not done as we were off to the Panto in Aberystwyth. One of our Scouts was in the panto so we had originally planned to take to other Scouts along with us and have quite a big party of panto-goers. But...
As usual, we attended the annual Machynlleth Lantern Parade last night. This time though rather than being innocent bystanders watching the lantern parade go by we were an integral part of it. Having built a lantern with the Scouts over the past few weeks, it was now time for our spooky ghost lantern to join...
Yep, we’re at it again – camping in the garden that is. Morgan, Anna and I only have September and December to tick off in order to get our Bronze Dragon Award. We have a Scout camp planned for December so thought we’d tick of September last night as well with a night under canvas in...
Just got back from a nice day out kayaking with the Scouts thanks to Aber Kayakers. As you can see, everyone had fun, including Anna so I just can’t resist posting this photo either – Captions in the comments please!
The Scouts seemed to enjoy their shelter building evening in the woods that we organised for their last meeting. They all got stuck in building some pretty impressive shelters and all want to do it again with the plan of actually sleeping in them. Looks as though Anna and I have another shelter building evening...
For a change, we thought we’d take the Scouts to the annual Jamboree on The Trail this week. This meant we’d meet on Saturday rather than their usual evening meeting. Jamboree on the Trail is an annual day for the World Scout Movement to hike together. All Scouts, whatever their age and wherever they may be in...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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