Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
An increasing trend in my daily life of checking various forums, blogs etc is that I have to do a search for various acronyms that people use in their posts that mean nothing to me. One such acronym that I’ve just had to look up is PEBKAC, I had no idea what it meant so...
Looks as though I spoke too soon in yesterdays post about there being no damage from the storms… Our power went off this morning at around 6.30am. We assumed it was the normal power cuts that we have fairly regulalrly here and that everyone was affected, but once others arose and we asked them we...
Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday dear Morgan Happy Birthday to you It’s Morgan’s birthday today and we’ve all had a lovely weekend celebrating. He had a party with all his friends on Saturday, complete with bouncy castle and ‘Sportacus’ cake then on Sunday we let him open his presents a...
Tilmann Heinig has just done a 500m kitesurf run with an average speed of 50.9 knots. It doesn’t count as the official world record as it was recorded using a GPS and there is lots of discussion not only over the accuracy of GPS recordings but also the fact that it records the actual distance...
Don’t worry, I shall get bored of posting this stuff soon, but I went for a run today and got my heart rate up to 180bpm for a short time… Very close to my theoretical maximum of 183bpm. After this though I did a nice easy run, trying to keep my heart rate within the...
Our trip to the lake District continued with an evening in Ambleside. We were stayingat the Ambleside Youth Hostel, which although big and fairly busy was actually quite nice. The room were basic as one would expect from a Youth Hostel but the hostel itself was right on the shores of the lake with amazing...
We’ve not long been back from a busy long-weekend in the lake District. Lots to Blog about so I shall post individual entires for each of the main topics, but overall James and Donna’s wedding went well and we had a great time, The location was perfect, the ceremony spot on and the reception etc...
Well, we’ve been waiting for it to happen as nearly every other child in Glenview nursery has had it. Morgan has got chicken pox! Typical really as we;ve got James and Donna’s wedding this weekend in the Lake District so fingers crossed he’s not too spotty for the photos and not feeling to ill. So...
Just a quicky to show off some photos of Morgan’s first festive activity this year! Granny left a gingerbread house for him to make so while Al was away last weekend we put it together. It came with a bag of jelly sweets and I think Morgan had more fun eating them than puttin gthem...
Morgan has just had a nice busy week with his Granny from the Isle of Man. He’s old enough now to remember who she is and was really excited about her coming. Fortunately she managed to arrive before Morgan went to bed so he came to the train station to pick her up. We had...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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