Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Just thought I’d post a quick #lovethyselfie photo seeing as I have some new glasses from specsavers. It’s not often that I take a selfie, but as I was sat at my desk trying them out it was easier to see what they looked like by taking a quick selfie than it was to walk...
It seems like ages since we’ve seen the sun, but it made a brief appearance here on Sunday so we went for as little walk around Ynyslas. Christmas Treats for the Bees I’d already been out for an early morning bike ride and a swim and then had come home, done loads of chores and had even...
Just a quick photo of my aquascape with fish in it. If you look closely you can see the Golden Pencilfish that we added recently. Aquascape with Fish You can also see the Nymphoides on the left hand side – that’s the bright green plant at the back, and some new Anubius plants in the...
I’ve just had a second attempt at the TrainerRoad workout Goddard. I tried this last week and couldn’t quite decide if I was having a slow recovery from illness or was just being lazy. I didn’t manage to finish the whole of the workout last week. I cut out the last round of spin ups and then didn’t...
Our Santa Christmas Cake is ready. Anna’s been busy playing in the band recently, concerts here, concerts there and various fund-raising sessions at Morrisons, so whilst she was out playing a concert to the Llanafan WI on what was a very wet Saturday afternoon, Morgan and I set about decorating our Christmas cake. I had...
Check this artificial wave out, Kelly Slater, 11 time World Surf League Champion and his partners have built what is probably the best man-made wave ever. Artificial wave We have a fairly decent artificial wave just up the road at Surf Snowdonia. However, when we went there it wasn’t working properly and it has had more than it’s...
We have some new inhabitants in the form of Golden Pencilfish in our Aquascape. I’ve been wanting a school of fish in there for a while and had toyed with the idea of Rummy nosed-tetras, but in the end decided that Golden Pencilfish (Nannostomus beckfordi), also known as Beckfords Pencilfish would be nice and a...
We seem to have had a bit of a spree on white goods lately. This might not be the most exciting of blog posts, but mentioning new purchases has proved useful in the past because when they go wrong or break down we turn to this website to see how long we’ve had them, so...
I’m either having a slow recovery from my cold, or I’m just being plain lazy. Getting back into it After trying to get back into some training last week after having had a cold, I did OK for a few days but then over the weekend fell off the rails a bit again. Thursday’s swim...
I don’t know if being 45 entitles me to become a grumpy old man, but it was my birthday last week, I was 45 and if this past week is anything to go by then I think it does. Opticians First up I had my usual bi-annual eye test. I knew that my eyesight was...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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