Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I couldn’t help but laugh today when I saw what was making the news headlines on www.iomonline.co.im. I try to keep up-to-date with news from the Isle of Man but this just says it all: “MOTORISTS BAFFLED BY ROUNDABOUTS – OFFICIAL MOTORISTS in the Isle of Man don’t know how to use roundabouts – it’s...
Congratulation to James and Donna who have FINALLY got around to planning their wedding. They’ve set the date (8th December) and the venue (Muncaster Castle) so it looks like plans are going well. We’re looking forward to it already and wish them both all the best. http://www.barefoottraveller.com/php/index.php (James & Donna’s travel info page) http://www.create-iom.com (James’ new business...
As part of a new recruitment drive for prospective students to the Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, we are offering visitors a free ride in a helicopter to see the sights of Aberystwyth from the air. They get a six minute ride and their friends and family can pay a small fee...
You may think from the title of this post that it will be all about Morgan and how he is 2 already and growing up faster than you could imagine…. Well, it isn’t, it is all about me, me, me!! I’m sure it wasn’t that long ago that I was a student and not long...
We decided to have a slobby dinner last night of Pizza, baked potato and salad. The usual instructions for oven baked frozen pizza are as follows: Preheat Oven Remove all packaging Place directly on top shelf of oven and bake Unfotunately that isn’t the case with the pizzas we had last night which say that...
Just a quicky to say Happy St David’s Day. I’m afraid I don’t know much about the customs etc but I’m sure Morgan will be doing lots of ‘Welsh’ things today.
Clearly I’m no large scale investor… I simply don’t have the money to do so, but I do have a cash ISA for my pension and several years ago I set up a Stocks & Shares ISA as that always seemed to be the best way to invest money. Obviously there is always a risk...
We’ve had a ‘big boys bed’ for Morgan for a while now but he has always wanted to sleep in his cot. It’s not been a problem and he’s been sleeping well in his cot and at least he’s contained when he wakes up. Well, he was contained until a few days ago when he...
How do we manage it!!?? Since Alan has got rid of the van he has had to find somewhere to keep all the stuff the van held (and believe me there was a lot of stuff in that old rusty toybox!). Anyway, we bought a shed with idea being to move some stuff out of...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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