Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Morgan’s school was closed on Thursday as it was being used as a polling station, so we decided to make the most of the opportunity and Anna and I took the day off too. We decided that it would be the perfect day to head the the Blue Lagoon, a water-park on the edge of...
I always enjoy gardening, especially the planning and landscaping of a garden, but here on the coast of West Wales, gardening of any type is challenging. We have to contend with poor soil (sand to be precise), strong winds and salty air. Coming up with any sort of a ‘garden’ is difficult and most people...
It feels as though summer is here and as a new member of the RSPB I thought I’d make use of my membership and attend some of the ‘courses’ at Ynyshir, our local RSPB reserve. Today’s course was ‘Bird Identification for Beginners’ run by Caroline. My bird ID isn’t bad but you can always learn...
The last time I did a timed circuit of the Pendam Trail at Nant yr Arian was about a month ago and it took me 41 minutes and 5 seconds. I was pretty disappointed with this as it was very slow compard to my personal best of 37:22. I’ve been feeling a bit slow on...
The forecast was for a lovely sunny day with lots of wind yesterday (Easter Monday). Steve had planned to come to Borth and we were expecting to windsurf all day. Steve turned up around 9am, we had a coffee and it wasn’t looking particularly sunny or windy but we headed over to the beach anyway....
After the best surf Ynyslas can muster on Saturday and some sunshine I was keen to get back in the water again. Darren (Badexcuseforasailor from Forces-of-Nature) was here for the weekend and we had arranged to either windsurf if there was wind or go for a bike ride, but windsurfing was the preferred activity. After...
Despite the weather, we had a good time on our recent caravan holiday to South Wales. We stayed at the huge Park Dean caravan site at Trecco Bay. Not normally our sort of thing but we had a cheap deal and it turned out good. The caravan itself was very modern and much bigger than...
Guess what, the third day of our holiday dawned, cold wet and miserable again, although after breaksfast there was a brief respite from the rain so we went to Kenfig Dunes for a wander around the National Nature Reserve. It’s kind of a home from home as we live amongst the dunes of Ynyslas but...
The second day of our holiday dawned in now traditional fashion, very cold, very wet and downright miserable. No playing on the beach for us so off we headed to Swansea to find a place called Plantasia. Plantasia was a little odd as it was housed within a shopping centre. Unfortunately most of the shops...
The first day of our holiday and like the rest of the week it dawned cold, wet and miserable. We therefore headed off to Cardiff and ‘Techniquest’, a kids science museum. It was really good with loads of hands on displays and lots of interesting and fun things for Morgan and for me and Anna....
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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