Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
This one almost slipped by unnoticed, but it has just come to my attention that the geocache that I did on top of Moel y Garn in a howling gale was geocache number 700 for us. At least it’ll be one I won’t forget in a hurry I guess. Not only were the conditions pretty...
Whilst on the dunes the other day we noticed that our drive looked quite smart – 13 years after building the house and it’s nearly finished! It blends in quite well now though.
If there was one good thing to come from our phone-line outage over Easter, it was the fact that Morgan couldn’t get online and therefore wanted to go outside to play all the time. We therefore had lots of trips to the beach and plenty of fun in the dunes. We kept putting sticks on the...
That was a fun Easter Sunday, The Easter Bunny had visited and left a whole load of eggs and the customary treasure hunt. The hunt seems to get more difficult each year just to challenge Morgan so today’s had a whole host of clues and codebreaking to do. Morgan got there in the end though,...
Well, the forecast was correct. After what was a lovely day on Good Friday, Saturday was a washout, a very windy washout as well. I still wasn’t feeling like a triathlete, but decided that I should probably go for a run or at least a walk up a hill. Anna and Morgan wanted to go...
After a morning working in the garden we headed off to make the most of the sunshine with a little family stroll around Ynyslas. This was all in an attempt to get Morgan off the computer and out into the real world! We didn’t want to put him off though as he’d only get grumpy and...
The Easter Bank holiday is finally here, so time for some rest and relaxation. Trouble with that was that the forecast was for a lovely Good Friday and then for things to take a turn for the worse with gales and rain forecast for the rest of the weekend. There was lots to do in...
Just a quick update about my cracked starboard SUP. I spoke directly to customer services yesterday, rather than through the retailer. As is always the case when on the phone they were helpful and polite but of course unwilling to commit to anything. I explained the mystery behind the whole thing and they decided that it was...
What was a lovely new Starboard SUP is now looking a little sad and in desperate need of repair. The last time I used it was back in December for a nice mellow surf SUP session in small waves here at Ynyslas. As you can see from the video in the blog post about this...
For some reason we’ve all been exhausted for the last couple of weeks. Anna is tired, Morgan is tired and even I’m staying in bed until 6am! My training has been terrible as a result too. I took it easy while I was ill a couple of weeks ago but just haven’t been able to...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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