Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
After our relaxing morning sailing at Axbridge Reservoir we headed off to Cheddar and drove up the gorge. There were a few geocaches in the gorge so we stopped off to do these. The first was a quick cache and dash called ‘Home of the Cheddar Pink‘ on the roadside. It was a gorgeous day...
After yesterdays successful work-life balance day I couldn’t let it slip today so managed yet another good day. I didn’t get up quite so early today, in fact for a change I managed to stay in bed until about 7am. I think yesterdays epic cycle ride must have tired me out! So, after some housework...
Regular readers of the blog will know that our Simple Life of Luxury is all about getting the work-life balance right and living in a location that suits or lifestyle. None of this working like mad in a city all week just to drive for miles to get to the beach or hills for a...
I’ve just got back from a weekend in Pembrokeshire. Dennis, a friend from Bristol is getting married in a few weeks time so it was a stag weekend with a difference. Nothing too ‘stag-like’ about it in fact and Dennis didn’t even want to call it a stag weekend, just a weekend away before the...
We got an energy monitor earlier this week and it has made fairly interesting reading. We’ve never been frivolous with our energy usage and do generally switch off lights when they aren’t in use (although I’m better at that than Anna), and don’t leave the TV on standby etc. but having the monitor has made...
Hows this for an interesting walk??? Not sure I could do it!
Well, the hot weather continues so we thought we’d make the most of it and get out for the day. First we drove around some local lanes looking for suitable hiding places for our planned ‘Assume Nothing Wales‘ series of caches. We have a few ideas, and will hopefully get a couple of new caches...
I love this time of year, a nice mini heat-wave in spring. The weather station nearly hit 25ºC yesterday. The plants are all growing well in the garden, we can wear shorts, go barefoot and eat dinner on the deck, the birds are singing and the wind is blowing. Today and yesterday I managed a...
We’ve just got back from a trip to the Isle of Man and as we flew over rather than going on the boat I didn’t have any windsurfing kit with me so we did lots of geocaching instead. The Assume Nothing series by Happy Humphrey kept us busy as did a few other caches. El...
I’ve been meaning to play around with ‘MotionBased‘ for a while, but the fact that Brad (my little brother) now has a Forerunner 305 GPS unit and has been using motion based prompted me to give it a go and use it. MotionBased is a ‘web application that translates GPS data into functional analysis and...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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