Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I’ve actually lost a bit of weight recently. That’s not a bad thing as I approach the age of 40. A number of people have commented on the fact and my BMI is now well within the ‘Ideal Weight’ bracket. All of which is good and I’m fairly pleased with it. That was until this...
Our forgaing for food is going well. Anna and Morgan got some more blueberries yesterday and the blackberries are almost ready. We even had a little expedition on the beach earlier in the week looking out for Razor Clams. We went armed with a bucket and a pot of salt. Apparently once you’ve found a...
As part of our few days away, we spent and afternoon visiting Hurst Castle with Jasper, Fiona, Pippa and Joe. We drive to Keyhaven which is a nice south coast boating village and caught the Hurst Castle ferry out to the castle. We’re not really into the history of such things but still had fun...
The weather here was terrible for the week of the Big Butterfly Count. Lots of rain, quite a bit of wind and we hardly saw the sun. Thankfully the sun did come out a little on Sunday 1st August and Morgan and I finally had chance to spend 15 minutes in the garden counting butterflies....
Whilst cleaning my 2009 Commencal Meta 5.5 bike lately I’ve noticed some cracks in a odd place on the frame. The cracks appear to be radiating out from a drainage whole on a brace between the two sides of the main rear swing-arm. I’ve circled the drainage hole in the image below. I’m not sure...
I finally had an appointment with the Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) Consultant surgeon at the hospital yesterday. He confirmed that I did indeed have Surfer’s Ear but thankfully didn’t want to send me off for surgery to have it fixed. He refer me to get fitted for some earplugs though to help prevent it...
After our meeting of the Ceredigion Moth Group on Saturday morning Morgan and I headed back down to sea level and collected Anna and a friend of Morgan’s called Lotti and we all headed off to the RSPB reserve at Ynyshir where we were booked in for a Teddy Bears Picnic – or as it...
We had a good afternoon at Morgan’s schools Sports Day. It wasn’t quite sunny but it was dry and the kids all seemed to enjoy themselves. For some reason the red team (Gogerddan) have won for the past few years but at last there was a turn around and the green team (Trawsgoed) won by...
One of the important things to do as a self-employed freelancer is to make sure you have multiple income streams as you just never know what is going to happen next. I don’t do too badly in that respect although it can get quite hectic now and then. As well as my main job as...
We don’t take Morgan swimming quite as often as we should, but Cerdigion County Council don’t make it easy either. Last time we took him to the pool at Plascrug leisure centre we were told that the children’s pool was a little cold. When we got in was was more than cold, it was absolutely...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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