Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
There’s been some wind again the last few days. It’s normally very windy here all the time, but so far this year there hasn’t been a huge amount and when there has been I’ve either been away, busy with something else or unable to get out windsurfing for some other reason. This week has been...
Morgan is doing well with his kite-flying now. It took him a couple of attempts and to start with he didn’t really persevere . His first couple of goes only lasted a couple of minutes each, but I didn’t want to force him to do it so just left it at that each time. He...
Anna was working on Saturday so couldn’t join us for our weekly walk along the beach to check on the progress of the Borth Sea Defence Scheme. My parents were here though and hadn’t seen any of it yet so as usual we drove from Ynyslas to Borth, parked up on the road and then...
The schools were closed on Thursday for polling, so Morgan was at home with me and I was forced to take a day off work (almost). It doesn’t take much persuasion mind you if I can manage it. What with the builders here and Morgan to entertain, the day flew by. We also seemed to...
The weather has been good for work on the Borth Sea Defence Scheme. We have had a couple of really high tides over the last week or so but fortunately the weather was calm so it didn’t cause too many problems. The contractors did place some large rocks around the area that they park the...
February 27th dawned grey damp and windy, but the Ystwyth-MTB club had a ‘proper wilderness’ ride on the agenda. Things weren’t looking too promising as we drove to meet in Machynlleth. The Tarren ridge that we were supposed to be riding was shrouded in dark grey clouds and didn’t look too inviting. Dave, John, Pete,...
It’s Saturday February 26th and I think we can say that Spring is definitely here. It’s been a glorious sunny day, albeit with a cool breeze, and there are flowers in the garden. A couple of crocuses, the first of the daffodils with plenty of others soon to follow and some snowdrops. Everything else seems...
My big challenge this year is the Brontrager 24/12 in July, a 12 hour solo Mountain Bike Ride in Plymouth. I’m not aiming to be fast or do particularly well, but I would like to at least try to keep going for pretty much the whole 12 hours and at least do as many laps...
Hopefully I’ll be posting about this quite a bit over the next few months, keeping people up to dat with progress on the Sea Defence Scheme in Borth. Work is well and truly underway now with a constant stream of huge lorries thundering their way in and out of Borth all day long. They line...
Well, if I learnt one thing today, its that slightly over-rotated forward loops can hurt quite a bit! All was going well, the wind was blowing, the waves were pretty big and I was out for a sail all on my own with my little JP Wave board and a 4.5m sail. First run out...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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