Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I’m bagging the Welsh Nuttalls – hopefully all 189 of them within time. There’s no rush though, and it’s a good excuse to get out into the hills and see some of the wild parts of Wales that I might not previously have seen.
You can check out my progress here: The Welsh Nuttalls, where I have a full list of those I’ve bagged and those yet to summit. And you can read my exploits in the individual posts about them.
Nuttalls Bagged This Trip Foel Goch – 613 m Trum y Gwragedd – 612 m Foel y Geifr – 626 m Pen y Boncyn Trefeilw – 646 m Stac Rhos – 630 m Cefn Gwyntog – 615 m Foel Cedig – 667 m Y Groes Fagl – 659 m Total to Date Total Welsh Nuttals:...
I’ve orchestrated my working life around a four-day week — the idea being that day five is for freelance work, leaving the weekend free. It used to be a 3:2 balance between contracted and freelance work, but since Covid and my heart attack, I’ve been gradually scaling back the freelance side of things. This year...
With my sights set on summiting all of the Nuttalls in Wales, there were a few that I knew I’d definitely climbed in the past—but quite a long time ago. That meant that although I’d done them, I hadn’t used a GPS device at the time, so I had no ‘digital evidence’ to confirm it....
With another bank holiday weekend on offer and the weather looking good, it was time to head to the hills again to bag some more Nuttalls. I wasn’t working on Friday, so it was a long weekend for me and there was no rush to get started. I headed out for a little mountain bike...
With a long Bank Holiday weekend on offer, it would have been rude not to bag a few Nuttalls. I left it until the end of the break to do so, though, as Friday, Saturday and Sunday were taken up with other things—including lots of shopping and gardening. So, on Monday morning, I set off...
After a busy weekend with some wild weather, Monday looked like the perfect opportunity to head into the hills and bag another Nuttall. With a few still close to home that I hadn’t summited, I decided it was a good day to tackle Y Garn in the Rhinogs. The forecast looked promising for a short-ish...
Nuttalls Bagged This Trip Pen yr Allt Uchaf – 630 m Gwaun Lydan – 632 m Llechwedd Du – 614 m Esgeiriau Gwynion – 671 m Foel Rhudd – 659 m Foel Hafod-fynydd – 689 m Erw Ddafad-ddu – 872 m Aran Fawddwy – 905 m Gwaun y Llwyni – 685 m Waun Camddwr –...
Having recently completed a circumnavigation of Wales on foot I decided I needed a new project to have on the back-burner. When I first set out on my journey to conquer the Wales Coast Path, I was fit, relatively young, and had the luxury of dedicating a day each week to it. But as life...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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Bog and Bilberry Bashing in the Berwyns – More Nuttalls Bagged
Sunday, June 1st, 2025
