Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
After a night of pouring rain and no sleep I got up early and had a coffee and breakfast under our new awning. I had planned to take an early morning walk up Ben Lomond but seeing as the weather had been so terrible overnight and I didn’t have all of my proper walking gear...
Inchcailloch After our little stroll into Balmaha yesterday, we had decided that we wanted to take a boat trip out to the island and Nature Reserve of Inchcailloch. It’s only a couple of hundred yards off shore from Balmaha and I was going to swim out to it, but decided against that as I would...
Our summer of long weekends continued last weekend with a trip to Scotland, camping on the shores of Loch Lomond. The primary objective of the trip was for Morgan to visit his friend Cameron who moved up here earlier in the year, but we obviously wanted to enjoy the scenery too. The Drive Up –...
Another glorious day here on Tuesday so after some work, some chores and checking through the Moth Trap, Morgan and I headed out geocaching. We stopped of at Annamarie’s house first to drop of a cake and a hard drive full of films so that should could watch them whilst eating cake during her recovery...
It’s been a while since I posted an aquarium update here, so time to make amends. It’s been a bit of a mixed bag really. The fish and shrimps are doing well as are some of the plants. The Anubias are growing well and looking good. The moss is growing like mad and most of the...
Morgan and others having fun in a hot tub at Jo and Danny’s 10th wedding anniversary party that we went to on Saturday.
Hooray, we completed our 2015 Geocaching Road Trip yesterday and earned ourselves the bonus ‘Road Trip Hero’ souvenir. As usual, this little challenge took us to some nice places and some fun times. As a recap, the 2015 Geocaching Road Trip ran between June 19th and September 2nd during which time we had to find five...
After our Barbecue on Monday night I decided to put the moth trap out – probably for the first time this year. Here’s the haul: Poplar Kitten x1 Small Wainscot x3 Small Square Spot x4 Common Wainscot x 7 Large Yellow Underwing x 7 Dark Arches x 11 Flame Shoulder x 3 Single-dotted Wave x...
Another fun day in the sun for us yesterday here in glorious Mid Wales. A usual early start for me to get some work done and then off to work for Anna as well. Meanwhile Morgan and I headed into Borth with the Stand-up Paddleboard and our snorkelling kit. Conditions were perfect, the air temperature...
After our visit to Bodnant Garden, and a day at Surf Snowdonia, we drove to Welshpool for the afternoon and then headed off to a field in the middle of nowhere near Llanfair Caereinion to meet some geocachers at a geocaching event. Now, we’ve said it before, but caching events aren’t really our thing. We...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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