Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
After fencing all day and a warm evening, it looked like a nice night for some moth trapping so out went the trap and then Morgan and I examined it this morning. There weren’t huge quantities in there but there was a nice selection including some more impressive ones. 7 x Shoulder stripe 1 x...
The weather is improving and as the forecast was for a warm,, dry, windless night I put the moth-trap out before heading off for a mountain bike ride in the Dyfi Forest. On the drive home there were bats flying everywhere. They must have been out catching moths and other insects so it looked as though it should be a good...
I’ve just got back from a nice morning windsurf. Nothing too spectacular as my 4.5m sail and little board wasn’t quite big enough so I took some rinsings in the lulls and had one pretty big swim too. On one occasion I had a monster wipeout got rinsed around for a while, held under for...
The 2011 Pwllheli Triathlon takes place this Sunday (27th March) and I’ve signed up to do it. I did quite a few triathlons ‘in my youth’ and then was talked into doing the Wotton Triathlon for charity last year by my sister. I quite enjoyed doing it again so thought I’d start doing a few...
In order to cut down on hundreds of lorry loads of rock armour for the Borth Coastal Defence Scheme, a huge ship from Norway carrying 42,000 Tonnes of Rock Armour will arrive by sea (weather permitting) on the 23rd March and again around the 29th March 2011. I’ve heard that BAM Nuttal the main contractors of the...
Here’s the other video from my Mountain Bike Ride at Llandegla on Sunday.
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...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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