Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Honestly! I am! I know, who’d have thought it that as I approach my 40th birthday I’d become a model in a nude calendar, whatever next! Unfortunately (or probably fortunately for most of you), I can’t show you any of the photos yet as it is being sold to raise money for the ITU and...
I’ve got funny shaped feet, but Crocs seem to suit me perfectly. They now have a decent range of footwear too, including some that I quite like the look of. They aren’t cheap, and there are plenty of ‘cheap’ imitations out there, but Anna recently bought me a couple of pairs of genuine Crocs. One...
All three compost bins are full to the brim, but I have an idea. The vegetables in the raised beds I built earlier in the year has pretty much finished now so I might transfer all the (not quite composted) garden rubbish from one of the compost bins to the raised bed where it can...
Couldn’t resist a photo of a spiders web – They really are impressive things.
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...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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