Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
On our way home at the weekend, we popped into Aquajardin near Gloucester to get some plants for my new tank. they didn’t quite have what we wanted so we came away with less than expected. Just one little pot of 1-2- Grow Eleocharis sp. mini and 1 pot of 1-2-Grow Staurogyne repens, along with...
Another busy weekend for us, but thanks to the fact that it is soon Morgan’s birthday it was at least a long weekend. The three of us left home early on Friday (after I’d done an even earlier hour on the turbo trainer) in order to had to the Cardiff Whitewater Centre. Morgan’s birthday treat...
Back to the fish tank and my ‘aquascaping’ project I’m afraid! There was a slight hiccup the other day when the cool RGB LED light strip that I had stuck to the back of the cabinet decided to come unstuck. Naturally gravity took over – it has a nasty habit of doing that – and...
Just a quick update on triathlon training to give you a break from the aquascaping project! Things are going OK as I gradually ramp up ready for the season. I’m losing a bit of the weight that I put on during JOGLE last year as well. I’m nowhere near race weight yet but it is at...
I think I’m getting somewhere with this hardscaping. I had an idea in bed last night to try to build up some rocks at the back of the tank around the edges of the lighter coloured stream. I wanted to create the effect of a mountain stream emerging from a gorge, something we get a...
Well, after my usual early start with a hard hill rep run, swim and then a cycle in Machynlleth, it was back home for a well earned bacon sandwich and then back to the creation of my aquascape. First job was to spend an hour or so scrubbing all of the rocks we collected yesterday....
It has begun, today has been spent starting to get the new aquarium set up ready for my first forays into the world of the aquascape. First was the building of the cabinet, followed by positioning of the tank and getting things in place. Tank Specs. Tank: Aquatlantis Fusion 102cm x 40cm x 60xm, 188 litres...
I think I must have been working in a Tardis all these years. My home office never seemed small while I was in it, but now that we’ve emptied it all out ready for a new carpet to be fitted it’s 4m x 3m walls make it feel quite ‘cosy’. The things is, somehow, moving...
Sorry to harp on about this, I should probably save my blood pressure, reduce my stress levels and just accept that B&Q are useless, but I don’t like being lied to and I don’t appreciate being told that I’m wrong either. Anyone who knows me will know that I rarely argue and if I do,...
The presence of a blank canvas thanks to my new Aquatlantis tank encouraged me to search the web for ideas on aquarium design which is when I came across the amazing world of aqua-scaping. The landscape style designs have astounded me and I’d love to build something along these lines, but don’t think I quite have...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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