Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Look what I spotted on my ride on Sunday morning – yep, it’s a giant knitted troll climbing up from under the bridge in Llwyngwril!
I managed to squeeze in a nice little SUP Surfing session on Monday and decided to try out the Surf Tracker app on my Garmin Fenix 3. The conditions were nice, a gentle SW breeze and 2 foot surf rolling into the beach at Ynyslas. The sun was shining, the temperature was almost 20ºC but...
It seems to be a rare occasion that we get a whole weekend at home these days, especially one with no real events to attend. But that is exactly what we’ve just had. This was partly due to the fact that Morgan was ill so couldn’t go to a special orchestra practise that he was supposed...
The garden seem to be going from its ‘Purple Passion‘ stage into a ‘Mellow Yellow’ mood instead,.
On day 4 we went to Tayto Park. We got up and did our morning routine. Got dressed and got on the bus to Tayto Park. Tayto Park is a theme park based upon the Tayto Crisps, the Irish version of Walkers. When we got to Tayto Park the first sight of a ride was...
Morgan was off school sick on Wednesday so I couldn’t leave the house so instead I ended up spending most of the day in the shed finding places to put my tools and creating storage contraptions to hold them all. There’s still lots to do, but it’s beginning to look like quite a usable space. I...
On day 3 we went to Dublin for the Day and learnt about it’s history with the vikings. First we got up and did out daily shower routines, with all the singing. We then got our stuff ready to go to Dublin, we got on the bus and played cards all the way there. When...
I usually have a 7:15am morning swim in the pool at the University before work on a Thursday. But being unable to run means that I have no races planned, no real need to ‘train’ and therefore less motivation than usual, so when I saw that Larry was organising a 6:30am sea swim in Aberystwyth...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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