Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
It may be a fairly pathetic harvest in comparison to some, but seeing as we started the year with no bees and had to wait a while thanks to the poor Spring for a couple of nuecs I don’t think we’ve done too badly. Especially seeing as the queen died in one of our colonies...
Morgan has recently started to learn the cornet and school and it he says he is really enjoying it. He has been practising every day and we are looking forward to him learning a few more notes so he can play some tunes. At the moment he can play C and D very nicely! At...
It’s been a while but I finally got out on my mountain bike last night. About time too really with the Coed y Brenin Enduro just over a week away. It was my first night ride for years too, but I charged my battery, put my light on my helmet, checked my bike – the...
Weird I know, but whilst in London last week we bought some Chocolate Pasta from Hotel Chocolate. It’s just pasta made with cocoa in it and the woman in the shop was a little surprised when we said we were going to make a dessert with it. She had only heard of savoury recipes being...
The qualifying events for the 2014 ITU Age-Group World Championships and the 2015 ETU Age-Group European Championships have just been published. You can see them here: http://www.triathlonengland.org/britain/documents/events/2014_events/2014_british_age-group_championships_and_gb_qualifiers.pdf As usual. the qualifiers for the World Champs take place in the same year, so the qualifying events for the 2014 World Champs are in 2014, with the World Champs...
Our fishing attempts have still proved fishless – I think it must be time for a change of tactics. So far all we have managed to do is catch one tiny little half-dead crab, some weed and we have managed to lose a lure. Not much success. We did try digging for bait on Thursday though and...
Day 5 in London and once again this one was aimed at Morgan with a trip to Legoland. We aimed to get there just after it opened at 10am so set off from the hotel at 8am with a short walk to Earl’s Court tube station. The plan was a quick 10 minute tube journey...
Breakfast With the race done and dusted, it was time to enjoy our trip to London. Saturday started with the big breakfast buffet in the hotel restaurant. And I mean big. Mine went something like this. Orange and Cranberry Juice Large Bowl of Granola with a pot of Yoghurt Cappuccino Fry up – 3 rashers...
Race day was upon us. Although my race didn’t start until 9:50am, transition closed at 7:30am so we made an early start, I had my usual race day breakfast in the hotel room and we headed to Hyde Park for 6:30am so that I could get set up. The Race I won’t recall the race...
Day 2 in London and it was supposed to be a busy one with team briefings, race registration, equipment checks, a possible bike course recce and bike racking. We were hoping to fit some sight-seeing in as well. Luckily I had managed to register the day before so that was one less thing to do. We left...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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