Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Despite the soggy weather and the fact that the lurgy had me feeling well and truly under it, Anna and I managed to get a bit of work done in the garden on Saturday morning before rain stopped play. The rain eased off by the evening but it was still pretty soggy out there, so here...
I continue to work my way through Rick Steins ‘India’ Cookbook and we’ve been loving most of the curry’s from it. To start with I was following the recipes as closely as possible and then, once I’ve cooked them once or twice, tend to adapt them to suit our tastes and the ingredients we have. Some...
Mmm, Cheesecake Muffins from a Philadelphia Cookbook – except I replaced the peaches with pears and the sour cream with creme fraiche. The Cheesecake Brownies were nice too.
With the British Sprint Triathlon Championships race over and done with, all efforts are now geared towards the European Championships which take place in Kitzbuhel, Austria exactly four weeks from today. As defending European Champion I should be going into this fit, fast and raring to go, but at the moment I feel far from that....
Thanks to Anna’s Mum, we now have a curtain in our dining room. Exciting stuff I know, but we have lived here for 10 years now and it’s the first time we’ve been able to close out the world through this particular window. Anna’s Mum had made us a similar curtain for one of the windows in...
Our priority this year with beekeeping is what beekeepers term ‘making increase’ that is to say we want to end the year with more colonies than we started so priorities are focussed more on splitting hives, rearing queens and increasing the number of bees we have rather than on honey production. Plans are afoot With...
We’ve just returned form a good weekend away racing at the British Sprint Triathlon Championships at Eton Dorney. We drove down in glorious sunshine on Friday and arrived at the lake for a quick look around. The course looked good and the weather looked as though it was going to be hot. We had booked...
May 17th 2014 already? Time for the Human Race British Sprint Triathlon Championships at Eton Dorney and what should have been an ‘A’-priority race for me. Training had been going quite well over the winter but the last 6 weeks or so hadn’t been quite so good. As I’ve posted elsewhere I just didn’t feel that...
With a race at the weekend, it would be rude not to have new toes wouldn’t it? And you know what that means – yep, you have to endure yet another photo of my feet! What’s the race? The British Sprint Triathlon Championships at Eton Dorney on Saturday, and ‘No’, I don’t feel ready for...
Just a quick update on our bees now that Summer is on it’s way. We currently have two colonies, Leri and Clettwr and both seem to have made it through the winter. Our plan this year – if you can make ‘plans’ when beekeeping is to make increase. That’s to say we want to split...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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