Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I had a busy day on Friday. After a 5am start in order to do a couple of hours work, I took Anna to work and Morgan to nursery and then drove up to Llyn Pendam to meet Steve. We then had an enjoyable Mountain Bike ride around a combination of the Summit Trail and...
Steve had the week off this week and wanted to go out for a cycle in the hills. I should really have done some work, but couldn’t resist a day playing on our bikes so we headed off to the hills around 9am. I know, ‘It’s a Hard Life!’, but you only get one life...
Could this be the beginning of me getting fit once again? I’ve been out on my bike a couple of times again this week and once again on Friday afternoon I did a couple of circuits of the Pendam Trail at Nant-yr-Arian. It was a little wetter and therefore slightly more slippery than before this...
After working yesterday morning whilst it rained outside, it brightened up in the afternoon so I decided to go out for another ride on my new bike and explore some likely looking trails. I set off from home and cycled along the road to Tre’r Ddol and then found a bridle path that I wanted...
Saturday was a miserable day here, grey and damp so we had a family outing to the supermarket and a naughty lunch at MacDonalds! By about 5pm the weather in Borth looked to have cleared a little. It was still grey, still a little damp but at least the rain had stopped, so as I...
I was ill last week and did very little work on Friday, but I did find the energy to pit my new bike together which arrived from Evans Cycles that afternoon. In fact there wasn’t much to do, the pedals needed fitting, the handlebars needed aligning and the headset tightened and I made a few...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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Camping / Hiking / The Welsh Nuttalls / Wales
Bagging Nuttalls in the Sunshine
Sunday, May 31st, 2026
