Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
We managed to harvest our honey today. I popped out this morning and put the clearer board on and then again early evening to collect the frames of honey. There’s only one hive in our apiary and it had two supers on it with capped frames in, but only about 14 frames in total worth...
Morgan was off school sick on Wednesday so I couldn’t leave the house so instead I ended up spending most of the day in the shed finding places to put my tools and creating storage contraptions to hold them all. There’s still lots to do, but it’s beginning to look like quite a usable space. I...
On Monday me and Key Stage 2 went on a school trip to Ireland, there were 42 children going and 8 staff members including the bus driver. When I got to school I went down to the bus and dropped off my big suit case, which left me carrying my rucksac. When I got into...
We continue to be delighted with our Spicery meals. The latest was Chicken Cafreal Kebabs which were a lovely Moroccan style kebab coated in coriander and spiced up with chilli, cardamon, cloves and star anise. This came with a really nice, sticky homemade mango chutney, a fresh cucumber and onion salad and a soothing raita. Star...
Things are looking OK in my new aquascape. As mentioned last time I seem to be beating the algae which was a bit of an issue for a while. The Endler’s Livebearers seem quite happy in there, as do the shrimps. Although quite how people take photos of their fish I’ll never know. I’ve also...
Things are heating up in the garden.
Hooray…. I’ve got stripey blue toenails.
Sorry to harp on about this, I should probably save my blood pressure, reduce my stress levels and just accept that B&Q are useless, but I don’t like being lied to and I don’t appreciate being told that I’m wrong either. Anyone who knows me will know that I rarely argue and if I do,...
Sorry, but it’s time to talk about Poo! I don’t know why I’m apologising really, 9 year old boys might find the topic amusing but as adults we should have grown out of that by now. Defecating, pooing, a number 2, taking a dump, having a sh*t, laying a cable, dropping the kids off at...
And here it is ready to be chopped up and eaten. I could add some more sparkles and such like but think we’ll stop there before we ruin it.
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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