Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
What with autumn well and truly here, riding my bike on the roads isn’t quite as much fun as it is in the summer – I don’t mind the cold and rain, it’s just not so safe in the dark with cars and lorries sharing the road too. On top of that I’m supposed to be doing...
I’ve recently enrolled on a Level 2 Cycle Coaching Course with British Cycling and spent the weekend in Ammanford for two days of intensive study towards it. After an early morning drive to Ammanford Leisure Centre I met up with my fellow participants on the course and we were introduced to Will and Mark our...
I recently started being a participant in another Sports and Exercise Study at the University. The study is investigating the effects of Tyrosine supplement and cognitive fatigue on exhaustive exercise in a warm environment and involves some fairly hardcore testing. First up was the usual ramp test on a cycle ergometer. After 3 minutes warm...
And to continue to food theme for today, this is what I call a proper omelette… 3 eggs, roast chicken, tomatoes, spring onions, cream cheese, spinach and cheddar cheese. None of these silly 15 second ‘Saturday Kitchen’ omelettes that look more like roadkill here. We’re talking proper omelettes for lunch!
Mmmm, I do like cheesecake and the latest one we’ve made was a white chocolate and hibiscus flower cheesecake with a raspberry coulis. Nothing left of it now though!
Spotted a sparrowhawk in the garden the other morning. Typically my camera was in the car so I couldn’t get a decent photo of it, but her’s a quick snap from my phone from within the house. It’s taken through the windows on a dark, murky morning hence the poor quality, but it’s the best...
Once again this year Morgan was selected to represent his school in the Aberystwyth District Cross Country Championships. That is despite doing no training whatsoever, something that we will nave to address as he could do quite well if he just did one or two runs beforehand to remind himself of how to pace etc....
I may be a few years behind, but I’ve just finished the first volume of our Weblog Book for 2011. It’s 350 full colour pages of glorious memories. In essences it’s a glorified photo album, but with lots of text and lots of information about things we were up to a few years ago. As...
Yep, we’re at it again – camping in the garden that is. Morgan, Anna and I only have September and December to tick off in order to get our Bronze Dragon Award. We have a Scout camp planned for December so thought we’d tick of September last night as well with a night under canvas in...
What with all the geocaching we’ve been doing lately, we’ve been looking at our geocaching stats in a new way. As well as using the statistics on geocaching.com, we’ve subscribed to project-gc.com as well which provides us with a more detailed look at our stats and even gives us badges for completing certain milestones. It...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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