Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Looks as though Parkin is having mustelid for breakfast! I thought it was a mink at first at there are far too many of these non-native vermin around, but now that I’ve seen the photo a little better the white belly seems to suggest that it’s a native stoat. I’ve actually quite a few around...
Our daft cats have taken to sleeping next to and on the edge of the trampoline. How long before they start re-enacting the John Lewis Christmas advert?
Just a few more cheerful photos of flowers in the garden. Happy Summer Solstice.
Here’s the video from our Tough Mudder attempts at the weekend. Don’t forget it was all to raise money for Diabetes UK.
We’ve made a few upgrades to our camper van since getting it. New Door Seals First up were some new door seals. These were nice and easy to install and apparently are standard on the higher specced VW vehicles such as the Caravelle and California. They cut down a little on road noise from the...
Phew, it’s been a while since I last did an FTP. Monday morning brought with it time to do a 20 minute FTP test though. My last test was at the beginning of January, an 8 minute test that produced an FTP of 290 Watts. Not great, but it dod result in a slight improvement over...
I haven’t mentioned Ivor, our local katabatic wind for a while. It is now the time of years when he’s at his strongest though. He’s been ‘blowing a hoolie all week’ so on Sunday morning I headed down to go windsurfing in the estuary at Ynyslas at high tide. The sun was shining, Ivor was...
We had a brief taste of Spring last week, but it was only brief. Since then it’s been raining, windy, grey and miserable. The forecast is for more rain or snow, colder temperatures and wintry conditions. So, to cheer things up a bit here’s a few photos of the Spring-like day from the University Campus.
Would you believe it, after all these years (150 million or so to be accurate!) Archaeopteryx is in Aberystwyth. Archaeopteryx, which had a 1m (3.2ft) wing span, is believed to be the link between prehistoric dinosaurs and the modern bird. It’s fossil, one of only 12 found is being displayed in the Old College from 14...
Thought I’d share a Christmas present label that had us intrigued. As you can imagine we had been wondering what this could be for a while. All was revealed on Christmas Day when we opened this. Maybe I don’t have such a dirty mind after all – It looks like a loaf of bread to me! If...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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