Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Another lovely weekend, with the sun shining and temperatures reaching 13.8ºC on Sunday. A Day in Welshpool We headed off to Welshpool early on Saturday morning. Anna and Morgan weren’t too keen on leaving the house at 8am as they consider that early. I of course had been up for hours having not slept at all the...
It was World Book Day on Thursday which means that children all over the country and presumably the world go to school dressed up as a character from one of their favourite books. Morgan decided at first that he wanted go as Gollum from The Hobbit but we couldn’t quite decide how to make a...
With the mercury rising – into double figures at least, light winds and almost some sunshine, I thought it was time that the bees should start flying. The temperature in our garden peaked at 10.9°C today, but the sun didn’t quite make it out properly. However, I took a quick glance at the hives and sure...
It was Morgan’s birthday party yesterday and we had planned to take him and a few of his friends Go-Karting. I started my day with my usual Sunday morning Run and Swim in Machynlleth followed by a bacon sandwich and coffee in the leisure centre. It was quiet there thanks to the fact that many people...
Uh oh… I think I may have overbaked for Morgan’s birthday party…. There’s only going to be 5 of them and the Go-Karting centre we are going to is providing food, I just thought I’d bake some extra cakes to keep them all going!
With Anna working on Saturday, Morgan and I went out for a nice little mountain bike ride together. It’s about time Morgan went out on his bike as he’s barely been on it since getting it last October. That’s partly our fault for not offering to take him out more often, partly his fault for...
It was the last day of Half Term yesterday (if you don’t count the weekend) and I was off work with Morgan whilst Anna was working at the University. We had planned a day at the leisure centre in Machynlleth. We had hoped to go kayaking but that was fully booked so plumped just for...
We had a nice day at home for Morgan’s birthday – a bit more chilled than a typical day with Alan but we had fun all the same. It started with lego building then we were off to feed the chickens. Morgan was very impressed to find an egg and even more impressed that we...
I’m happy to report that despite spending my day working at the University on Morgan’s birthday he did save some lego for me to help him build. So that’s exactly what we did yesterday. I started the day with a run, the slowest I’ve ever been around that course so not a great start, but...
I’m going to be cycling from John O’Groats to Land’s End (JOGLE) later in the year raising money for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Limited.. You can sponsor me here. I’ll be writing more about it over the coming weeks once I’ve had chance to take a proper look at the route myself and start working...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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