Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
As you know from a previous post the weather station is currently out of action. After some phone calls to the UK distributors it seems as though there is a fault on the main SIM board so it was dismantled and sent off to them just before Xmas. Unfortunately they will be on holiday until...
The Borth and Ynyslas Weather Station is currently experiencing a few problems. Sometime last week the humidity sensor stopped working properly. This had happened before so I contacted the UK distributors of the equipment and soon had a new one ready to install. Sunday was the day for the installation of the new humidity sensor....
It seems quite early to me, but we have had the first snow-fall of winter here today. When we got up the hills were all covered in snow. Not quite enough to play in and it has started to melt quite a bit already, but if my back was feeling a little better it would...
Steve had the week off this week and wanted to go out for a cycle in the hills. I should really have done some work, but couldn’t resist a day playing on our bikes so we headed off to the hills around 9am. I know, ‘It’s a Hard Life!’, but you only get one life...
At last, we got to use the garden!! I spend ages keeping the lawn mowed and keeping it all looking nice, but so far this year we’ve barely been able to enjoy it. Jay (my brother) Jennie and their children Megan, Harry, Charlie and Jack were coming to Borth for a camping weekend with the...
Here comes the main bank holiday weekend of the year and at last the summer has arrived. At the moment it is gorgeous outside, wall to wall sunshine, 20ºC and a nice cooling breeze. It looks as though we should have visitors for the weekend too… Well, almost as Jay, Jennie and their children, Meg,...
Sunday dawned wet and miserable, but I decided that I shouldn’t let such weather put me off going for a walk so headed off to the Cadair Idris an an attempt to get First to Find on some geocaches. First stop was at Llyn Cau and by the time I got there I was drenched,...
We had a nice early start yesterday, Impi arrived at 5.30 am to catch the tide and the wind and we were on the water not long after. The wind was a little fickle to start with but filled in and the water flattened off for some amazing speed runs on our big kit. Despite...
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...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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