Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
The weekend turned out quite nice in the end. After a fairly damp camp with the Scouts up at Devil’s Bridge on Friday night, the sun came out on Saturday and temperatures reach 17.3ºC, the hottest day of the year so far. A First Time for Everything I spent the afternoon cleaning cars and working...
We’ve had massive floods, huge waves, tidal surges, evacuations, hurricane force winds and power cuts, you’d think that would be enough now, but it seems not. Borth is now on fire!!! It looks as though the bog is burning and no ones knows why. Quite how that can even happen considering how wet it is...
The forecast was correct and we did indeed beat our previous record wind gust here on Wednesday. The forecasting site that I use and that has always been the most accurate for me is WindGuru and it was forecasting that the wind would start really building at 1:30pm on Wednesday and peak at a maximum at...
Well, that was exciting. I’m sorry for the lack of updates on the severe weather warning post on Wednesday evening, but not long after my post about the troubles Anna was having getting to the school to collect Morgan the power went off so I had no way of updating things online. I had just...
The Met office have upgraded the weather warning for Ceredigion to ‘Red’ – The highest level for severe weather warnings which means there is a risk to life and that people in the affected areas should ‘Take Action” During this afternoon a swathe of exceptionally strong winds is expected to affect western parts of Wales...
I don’t think anyone would deny that we’ve had a fairly awful winter so far this year. It hasn’t been cold yet, but it’s just been wet, windy and miserable. There does seem to be hope on the horizon though. There’s a brief respite in the stormy weather today, the wind has gone and it isn’t raining at...
As flood wardens we’ve just been told to inform residents to evacuate their homes again. here’s the official statement: NRW will be issuing a flood warning. We have also been advised by Ceredigion County Council that the expected local conditions and high winds will be a problem around tomorrow mornings high tide at 8.41 a.m....
No, we aren’t being evacuated again, not yet anyway, but the students are being evacuated from the seafront halls. All lectures and seminars have been cancelled in the university for Friday and Monday and students have been told to leave seafront halls by 4pm on Friday in preparation for the battering we’re likely to get...
The last battering we had from the weather a few weeks ago destroyed the seafront in Aberystwyth and made quite a mess of Borth and Ynyslas and resulted in us being evacuated from our house for the night. It looks as though it could all be repeated again this weekend. The storm a few weeks...
What a difference a week makes. This time last week we had just returned to our house having spent the night at a friends after being evacuated due to severe storms. Today has been as still as you like with plenty of winter sunshine, so we made the most of it by having a little...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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