Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
It’s never ending this bicycle maintenance malarky. Just before Xmas I took my bike into the shop for a service. I wanted to get the forks serviced so thought I’d let them give everything else a once over as well. Turned out that the forks were beyond repair so I had to get some new...
Hope you all had a good Christmas. Somehow we managed to keep Morgan awake on the way back from visiting Santa so he went to bed fairly excited but fairly early on Xmas Eve. Anna and Imanaged an early night too so I think Santa must have visited fairly early as well. Morgan woke up...
After a busy day on Saturday, Anna and Morgan were off to the Arts Centre in Aberystwyth to see Peter Pan on Sunday, so seeing as my bike was in the shop being repaired I planned a day walking and geocaching in the hills with my new camera. Just before leaving I wandered across to...
We’ve just got back from a busy weekend in Gloucestershire doing a pre-Christmas family visit and getting my car MOT-ed. Unfortunately just after the MOT it developed an oil leak so we had to leave it there and borrow my brothers car to get back home! Morgan also came down with a sickness bug so...
The fair is in town, so after a play in the playground, a walk along the prom, watching the starlings above the pier and dinner in KFC we headed off to the fair. It isn’t something we normally do, but Morgan was pretty excited by the idea so we thought we would take him. Being...
It was a lovely day on Saturday so we decided to head into Aber and take a walk through the castle and along the prom. I’m glad we did as we were treated to a pretty spectacular display as a huge flock of Starlings came to roost under the pier. There were plenty of people...
There was a pretty impressive view of a couple of planets in the night sky last night. Lickily it was clear when we got home so as well as being able to see plenty of stars and a crescent moon we could see Venus and Jupiter.
I’ve been toying with the idea of a new camera or two for a while now. My existing camera is good, a Panasonic DMC LZ10 but it isn’t quite perfect. When I bought it I was after the best of both world, the easy an portability of a compact and the versatility of an SLR....
Hiding gecoaches for others to find can be rewarding. It can also be quite time-consuming. First you have to identify a suitable hiding place, then you have to create the cache itself, hide it, write a description and possible devise a puzzle for it and then create the listgin on the geocaching.com website and finally...
I haven’t been for a walk in the hills for ages so decided to head off to the north side of Cadair Idris on Saturday for a walk and to do some geocaches. I parked at Ty Nant and walked back along the road a little way to the Gwernan Hotel and the start of...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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