Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I spent a weekend in North Wales recently and had my first real taste of Youth Hostelling. Steve and I stayed at the Snowdon Ranger Youth Hostel, on the west side of Snowdon. We were in shared room that had 6 beds, but luckily we were the only one in it which was nice. There...
I haven’t long got back from an outdoor weekend in Wales. First I drove to Liverpool and Anna, Morgan and I stayed in a Travel lodge for the night so that I could drop Anna and Morgan off at the airport early in the morning so that they couldget the plane to the Isle of...
The weather yesterday was perfect for mountain-biking, gorgeous sunshine very little wind and cool, so Harvey and I headed off to Pendam for a ride and some exploring. From Pendam car park we cycled out past Llyn Syfydrin and along the track towards Nant-y-Moch. We saw Dave on the way so said our hello’s and...
Living on the beach with a large, flat salt marsh behind us means that there isn’t any great mountain-biking on our doorstep. We do of course have some really good trails nearby, but most of these are a 20 minute drive from the house and it would be really nice not to have to do...
The Borth and Ynyslas Weather Station is now back online again. We had some problems with it in December. First the temperature and humidity sensor stopped functioning properly. A replacement was ordered, but when installed it fried the main SIM board within the sensor suite and everything stopped working properly. I have since got a...
We had a nice family day out on Saturday, shopping in Carmarthen. Anna had never been there before and I had only been there as part of Brad’s Stag weekend. We didn’t really need to buy anything in particular and Anna did suggest going to Aberystwyth instead, but I fancied a day out and a...
There was quite a long run-up to Christmas this year. Anna and Morgan finished work and nursery on Friday afternoon so we had Friday Afternoon, Saturday, Sunday and Monday before the fat jolly red-clothed man himself arrived. I had a new pair of binoculars for my birthday so I had promised Morgan that I’d taker...
I’ve had another action packed weekend here in Mid Wales. Enjoying the best that the area has to offer, all thanks to Anna who of course had Morgan to contend with on Saturday whilst I enjoyed myself. Steve arived at around 9am and we headed off to Pendam for a mountain bike ride out to...
We had a nice family evening out on Saturday to visit the Halloween / Bonfire Night lantern procession in Machynlleth. We drove there with Dave and Sarah and met Sarah, Simon and Josh there.. We also bumped into a few other Ynyslas residents including Mike, Rachel, Jamie and Cameron, Chris, Margi and Amy as well...
We had another nice family day out on Saturday. I ‘needed’ some new technical clothing so we thought a trip up to Betws y Coed and the outdoor shops there would be good. I was after lots of things as usual, a really nice waterproof jacket for walking, a lightweight, waterproof for cycling, some waterproof...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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