Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Friday and Saturday were as good as they get here… Friday afternoon saw 30-40 knot winds, glorious sunshine and some big waves. I was out windsurfing from the beach just in front of our house and having a whale of a time. To start with I was on my own and playing it fairly safe...
Living out here in the sticks does mean that we don’t necessarily see various members of our family as often as we would otherwise. However, living by the sea does mean that as soon as the sun comes out and the weather warms up they suddenly all want to visit us!! My parents were here...
It’s not often that anything news-worthy happens around here, but there was an armed police raid in Borth last night. We knew nothing of it but apparently there were around 20 police officers including dog handlers, polic in full riot gear and even some armed police called to a house in Borth to arrest a...
I think I’m right in saying that most of the UK has been experiencing some unseasonably nice weather over the last week, with temperatures in the 20’s and gorgeous blue skies and blazing sunshine.. Here in Wales we certainly have and for me it has been as good as it gets. We have a local...
What a lovely Easter weekend that was.. Gorgeous sunshine, warm and not too busy here. Anna, Morgan and I did a bit of geocaching and visited a few new caches in Aberystwyth known as the Oakey Pokey series as they are all hidden in oak trees. They provided a nice little walk along a quite...
I had a great day in the hills yesterday. The sun was shining it was really hot and I was off in search of 3 geocaches. I parked near Nant-y-Moch and headed straight up to the summit of Plynlimon, I didn’t find the first cache of the day so headed off around the ridge and...
We had another action packed weekend here in West Wales. I had an early start on Saturday as Ivor (the local katabatic wind that blows down the Dyfi Valley at this time of year) was up to his tricks and Impi called around for a windsurf session at 6am. We headed off to the estuary...
British Summer Time (BST) is here and it seems as though it has brought Summer with it. Yesterday was lovely here in Borth, Wales. The sun was shining and Ivor, our local katabatic wind, put in an appearance so I could go windsurfing in the estuary at Ynyslas. Ivor wasn’t quite up to full strength...
After having a great days windsurfing on Saturday I thought it only fair that I resist the temptation to go windsurfing again on Sunday, (despite the fact that the Borth and Ynyslas Weather Station showed a max gust speed of 49.7 knots), and have a family day out instead… Well, it was Mother’s Day. So,...
Just a quick congratulations for ttTom (Tom and Shirl) for getting the first to find on all 5 new geocaches that I hid at the weekend in the Watery Wales 2 series. Also, a congratulations to Gwyddno who followed them around closely and got the second to find on all 5 caches. It sounds as...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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