Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Coast Path Vital Stats Green Bridge of Wales to Freshwater West Distance: 6.49 miles Elevation Gain Today: 92m Highest Elevation: 65m Time: 1:02:53 Av. Pace: 9:41 mins/mile Calories: 647 Totals to Date Total Distance: 914.23 miles Total Time: 171:28:14 Total Elevation Gain: 27059 Total Calories: 86177 Distance to go: 171 miles As seems to be...
Just a standard Ynyslas Sunset for you today – one of the many last week. The camper and Surf Ski obviously set it off nicely.
We’re due another heat wave later this week. Not crazy hot this time here but still temperatures up into the high twenties. It was absolutely gorgeous out there this morning though. Sunny skies, temperatures a pleasant 20ºC and just a few small fair weather clouds. The sea was calm and there were large mullet breaking...
We didn’t quite break the all time temperature high here yesterday. We got close though. The all time high was 33.7ºC and we ‘only’ made it to 33.4ºC on the Borth and Ynyslas Weather Station. That was hot enough for us. It’s always a little cooler by the sea of course and just inland from...
Well, as forecast Sunday (yesterday) was indeed the hottest day of the year so far. The temperature on the Borth and Ynyslas Weather Station here in our back garden hit 28.2ºC at 2:01pm. Still quite a way off the all time high of 33.7ºC but today is meant to be hotter still and it is...
The photos I posted with my last blog post about our scramble on Tryfan and Bristly Ridge earlier in the week were the ones that I took. They were therefore mainly of the scenery and of Rhys. Rhys has now sent me the ones he took which are also of the scenery, but also of...
We’ve scrambled up Tryfan’s North Ridge a few times in the past and have also wanted to do Bristly Ridge. Various things have conspired against us though and we’d never quite done it. Last time we were up there was June 2021 where the weather closed in and we were forced to head back down....
Well, typically, having had a nice long break planned with Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday off work, I’ve been unable to do much with it. My cold / chest infection has kept me out of action. No doubt it’ll be fine by Thursday and I’ll be able to go to work as usual...
I’m not sure if this is a thing to ‘celebrate’ or not, but Monday was 1 year since my heart attack. I guess it’s good that I’m still here 1 year later, but celebrating the actual event seems a little weird. It has of course changed almost everything for me but I’ve been recovering and...
As part of my plan to get back on the water I’ve been paddling a few times with Aber Kayakers. I’ve always had connections with the club but had never really been a full member as I did a different type of paddling. Once I started Quadrathlons I was more into performance paddling in the...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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