Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Whilst walking in the Moelwyns above Tanygrisiau the other week Morgan and I came across a whole load of mine entrances that led to caverns and passages that looked ripe for exploring. Not knowing much about them and not having the right equipment with us we resisted the temptation to enter them, but did look...
We put the moth trap out the other night. There wasn’t a huge number of moths in it by the morning but there was a new garden record for us in the form of a Pink-barred Sallow. Elsewhere in the moth trap were: 3x Large Yellow Underwing 6x Setaceous Hebrew Character 6x Small Square Spot...
It was nice to see a feral colony of honey bees before kayaking on Sunday. The bees there seemed quite happy coming and going and they seemed to be doing well.
Just got back from a nice day out kayaking with the Scouts thanks to Aber Kayakers. As you can see, everyone had fun, including Anna so I just can’t resist posting this photo either – Captions in the comments please!
Against all odds we have harvested some honey again. This year our honey has come from our bees in Llandre and as in previous years supplies are very limited.
The Honey Harvest has begun. To be honest, we haven’t got much again this year, especially compared to some other local beekeepers – a friend of ours managed to extract 300lb of honey from her hives in just one valley and left every hive with 2 full supers as she got fed up of extracting...
I didn’t have a decent camera with me yesterday so I thought I’d enhance one of my photos of Bryn Cader Faner with the help of Photoshop. That’s better, more dramatic, atmospheric and befitting of a Bronze Age site.
I think that having hit 32 consecutive days on Saturday we are coming to the end of our geocaching streak. We went out on a high though with a 5 star mountain challenge. That’s 5 stars out of 5 stars in case you were wondering. As mentioned in a recent post about our walks up Cadair Idris and...
The schools might have gone back, but the weather has improved again and our geocaching streak continues. We’ve been geocaching for 30 days in a row now and have done some good caches during that time. We broke quite a few records last weekend and we’ve been trying to continue this streak even though Morgan is...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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