Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Ynyslas last week 22nd Jan 2013 – Sub-zero temperatures, grey skies and snow drifts – Great fun, we love the snow. Ynyslas this week 31st Jan 2013 – 10°C, blue skies, blowing a hoolie and wild waves – Great fun, we love the wind and sun! I wonder what next week will have in store...
Being a freelance website designer may mean that I have a distinct lack of disposable income – in fact sometimes it means I have a complete lack of income let alone that of a disposable nature – but it does mean that I can work, rest and play to my own schedule rather than being tied...
I still haven’t managed to get any really good photos of the birds that have been in the garden during the snow. I’m not really patient enough to sit out there hidden away somewhere so I’ve taken a few photos through the conservatory windows instead. They aren’t the cleanest conservatory windows at the moment so the...
Another day and another snowman – although the snow here at sea level is now beginning to disappear. Still loads in the hills though.
We had quite a bit more snow here last night so after breakfast there was nothing for it but to head out into the garden and then over to the beach and the golf course for a play in it. All the fun and games was followed by a delicious ‘Epic Hot Chocolate’ complete...
I’ve not long got back from a lovely early morning run. The run itself wasn’t anything spectacular – I’m still suffering with a chesty cough and as it was a cold frosty morning I decided to take it easy and stuck to a gentle jog all the way around my 6.5 mile loop, but it...
Wales is known for being wet and rainy but I’ve never know it like this before. It seems to have been raining pretty much non-stop for months. Everything is sodden, the ground is saturated, low-lying areas are flooded and rivers are at bursting point. The garden is a quagmire and where it isn’t it has...
I haven’t done much training over Christmas and I’ve now got a sore throat so decided against a run today as well. Instead I went for a little windsurf session off the seafront in some moody conditions. Nicely powered with a 5m sail and some nice ramps out there too. Nothing too extreme, just a fun...
Maybe ‘all’ of my problems is a slight exaggeration but we’d been gradually having various home network issues here. Our home computer network isn’t that complicated but it is convenient to have it all up and running as it should do. We have a broadband connection wired from the phone line to a Belkin router....
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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