Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
The summery weather seems to have left us for a while. I even spotted a fairly impressive waterspout just out to sea a little whilst driving into work the other day. I managed to stop and snap a quick couple of photos of it with my phone. A proper telephoto lens would have been better,...
I’ve not long got back from an exhausting couple of days at the ‘Cereals Event’ in Nottinghamshire where I was manning the Biomass Connect stand. I know I don’t often post about work-related things, but as this was a little different and I had some photos I thought I would. It was tiring thanks to...
We’ve had our conservatory since 2011. It’s a useful room, but as with most conservatories it gets too hot in the summer and it’s freezing cold in the winter. Time therefore to do something about it. We did look into having a completely new tiled roof fitted but that was quite expensive. Instead we decided...
We always have issues with the power supply here. Bird strikes often take it out completely for a day or two, there are constant brown-outs, we have powercuts if it’s cold or windy, the power seems to dim somewhat at 9 pm every night, and if there are any problems anywhere on the local network...
Work is often the main cause of stress in a person’s life. Holding down a job is an enormous responsibility; it can take up a lot of your time and energy, and there will always be stresses and challenges in any job to manage. Stress from work can spill over into your personal life, which...
It should not be a difficult decision to go on a staycation with family. You need a break from work, and so does your family. However, you have too many things to deal with, and having a staycation is not a priority. If you finally decide to go on a trip, these tips will help...
OK, they aren’t ‘our’ fields as in mine and Anna’s, but they are the fields that belong to the project that I’m now working for ‘Biomass Connect’. So, as it was a nice day and there were a couple of us new to the project we thought it was time to take a look at...
It may have been a week ago that I was white-water kayaking in the Lake District, but I do have some keepsakes from the trip. The best of which requires the sharing of a photo of my upper thigh – not quite my bum you’ll be pleased to hear! Impressive hey – fortunately it’s not...
What with coronavirus, a heart attack and the subsequent recovery, I hadn’t been up to North Wales for a paddle for ages. I used to go fairly regularly for the Colwyn Bay races with the North Wales Surf Ski Paddlers and the Llyn Padarn Time Trials with the Dyffryn Conwy Paddlers. The latter of these...
We’ve now become a 4 robot household with the addition of a new Robot Vacuum Cleaner. Burgess our other robot vacuum cleaner lost a wheel a few weeks ago, I repaired him and he’s been doing OK since but we thought it was time for an upgrade. New Smarts The new one is very similar...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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