Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Our weather station has now been up and running for over a year so I can start comparing stats. I’ve been looking today at the January’s weather stats from 2006 vs 2007…. Now obviously 2 data points can’t in anyway form a trend and with my geological background I’m always moaning at ‘weather experts’ for...
Just a quick note to say that I’m in the process of building a little website aimed at promoting the ‘sport’ of geocaching in the Aberystwyth area. Aber-cachers.co.uk will be a comminuty site where local and visiting geocachers can plan trips, ask for advice and generally get to know each other. As well as covering...
It seems like ages ago that Anna and I first met… I guess it is quite a while, but one of the first places we went together was Dolgoch Falls. Under slightly strange circumstances we met a group of ‘hippies’ there for a party around a camp fire and slept out under the stars. It...
The recreation ranger from the Forestry Commission has given me permission to hide some new geocaches so I’ve hidden them and published the cache logs at geocaching.com. They form the Watery Wales series which is a series of caches on the banks of lakes and streams in the Welsh Hills. Most are pretty easy to...
As usual when I get a little project into my head I go a little OTT. If you hadn’t noticed my ‘project’ lately has been geocaching. Every chance I get I’m either looking up caches on geocaching.com or out there in the hills searching for little plastic boxes or chasing that FTF (First to Find)!...
The weather hasn’t been great and we had planned day out as a family along with Dave and Sarah from next door geocaching in the Welsh Hills on Saturday. Saturday dawned particularly wet, but if you don’t do anything around here because it is raining nothing would ever get done so we set off anyway....
Christmas is over and the New Year is here… HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! The last few days of the holiday were pretty wild here. Winds gusting to 54 knots and some mad mad storms, rain, hail, thunder, lightning, you name it we have had it. Steve came to visit on Saturday and we had planned...
I treated myself to a day out geocaching yesterday. A good excuse to play with some of my Xmas presents and enjoy the winter sunshine. Before I go any further I should of course thank Anna for looking after Morgan all day long and letting me go out to play. I started off with a...
Just a quick photo I took yesterday.
I find loads to keep me amused in Borth, but for the average holiday-maker I guess there isn’t a huge amount to do. There is the beach to play on and an amusements arcade, and of course the ‘Animalarium’. I’ve never actually been in to it, it doesn’t look great, and according to this inside...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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