Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
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...
Another busy weekend – I think I need a rest after that one. It was dominated this week by the office makeover. As mentioned elsewhere, a leak in our fishtank prompted a complete re-decoration of my home office. The biggest task was moving everything out of the office and finding somewhere to store it whilst the...
I’m doing my best to stick to my new plan of increasing my training a little as the race season gets ever closer. As well as my large scale annual periodisation in which I’m trying something new, I also have a meso-scale pattern within my training where I do a 3 week cycle. This consists of...
I’ve said it plenty of times before, but I like gadgets and tech, and often use them to provide motivation as far as fitness and training is concerned. Be it a GPS enabled watch such as my Garmin 910XT, Virtual Power turbo training such as TrainerRoad or technical socks, I fall for them all and use...
It seems to have been a week or so of re-locating ‘pets’. Last weekend it was relocating the beehives, this weekend, following on from the fish-tank leak it was time to re-locate the aquarium. Now or Never The latest news on the escalation of jobs associated with the fish-tank leak is that the new Aquatlantis Fusion 101...
As regular readers of this weblog will know, I often volunteer as a participant in various studies at the Sports and Exercise Department at Aberystwyth University. Most of these require a fair bit of my time to do but often prove interesting and painful in equal measure. Interesting from a point of view of getting a measure on...
We’ve got a guest post for you today, but one that’s apt as I could certainly do with a nice holiday on a budget. Travelling abroad on a modest budget can seem like a challenge at first, but it’s one well worth taking on. After all, those paid holiday hours should go toward something truly...
After a training morning on Sunday and a Beehive Re-location, our day was still not done as we were off to the Panto in Aberystwyth. One of our Scouts was in the panto so we had originally planned to take to other Scouts along with us and have quite a big party of panto-goers. But...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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