Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
OK, so we are officially out of Britsih Summer Time, but what a weekend… Gorgeous sunshine for most of the day today, warm temperatures and even bikini-clad girls on the beach and swimming in the water. We don’t get manye days better than that here in Wales during August!! It was pretty busy out on...
Here we go again, time to leave BST behind us and revert to Greenwich Meantime… To me it all seems a bit silly Greenwich Meantime (GMT) is the way things ‘should’ be but in the spring we have to put our clock forward by one hour in order to enter Bristish Summertime (BST) as part...
It isn’t very often that there is any showbiz news emanating from the Aberystwyth area. We do have a few famous people living around here, but most have come here to get away from the limelight and therefore tend not to generate any news stories. However, the front page of yesterdays Cambrian News ran with...
As Al mentioned the other day we have been living in Mid Wales for a few years now and do see ourselves as locals, especially now we have someone Welsh in the family (Morgan!). It can be difficult to integrate into close-knit rural societies and often the advice is ‘get a dog’ (especially where we...
If there’s one thing that everyone knows about Wales, it is that we get more than our fair share of weather. Indeed, today we have had gorgeous sunshine, torrential downpours, light winds, gales force winds and probably a few other bits and pieces of weather too. This may well explain our fascination for the weather,...
Since moving to this area of West Wales, Anna and I have always tried (without trying too hard) to integrate with the locals. It has to be said that it isn’t a difficult thing to do as many of the ‘locals’ are actually well established incomers. However, even as students at Aberystwyth University we tended...
Well, this website and its blog may only be a week or so old, but I have been meaning to ‘play’ with the blogging software WordPress for a while now. So before this site had too many posts I thought it would be an ideal opportunity to give it a go. So far I have...
I was chatting to someone yesterday (who shall remain anonymous) who had recently moved to this area after having lived in London, Bristol, Stroud and a few small places. It seemed to me (and to her) that she had yet to find her true ‘home’ and in her words she is ‘never happy’. From what...
……no matter how much you try and downshift! Alan has mentioned that I have the ‘proper’ job in the family. This does seem to suit us all very well allowing us some security (although given recent events at work nothing is guaranteed but I’ll save that story for another day) but also flexibility and quality...
I know many people think we are un-conformists living out here on the edge of Wales. We don’t think so, we think we are fairly normal, but whether we confrom or not at least I can say our weblog does. So, what does it conform to and why is it important? Well, without getting too...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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