Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I’m not gluten free by any stretch of the imagination – I will quite readily polish off cake after cake and eat anything that’s in front of me, especially from time to time when I have a proper pig out! However, during a normal day I have been trying to cut down on gluten a little bit....
We have visitors coming this weekend – Well, actually they are arriving Sunday night for a couple of days. It’s my Sister Trudi, her boyfriend Mike and he children Kia an Shaun. As we only live in a small(ish) bungalow we don’t have huge amounts of room for them, mainly because one of our bedrooms...
Well, the bees are up to no good again. Clettwr, the stronger of our two colonies has been struggling. We found their queen dead at the bottom of the hive just over a month ago, but they had already started raising a new queen and had some queen cells on the go at that stage....
Me and Dad had fun this afternoon snorkelling, I got half my wetsuit on first at home and then we drove to Borth and I got the other half of my wetsuit on. We walked down onto the beach and got into the sea the sea wasn’t that cold we could almost walk out to...
No, not a record in numbers, but just a new species for the garden, a lovely little Flame Carpet. Here’s the full list from last night – A nice manageable 45 moths from 18 different species. Enough to keep us busy, but not so many as top take all day to go through and identify...
After a weekend of camping, the wet weather that we had endured on Sunday followed us north and treated us to another wet day on Monday. Anna had the day off, Morgan was off school So I took the day off as well. After some chores we had a breakfast of toast smothered in delicious...
Well, that was wet – VERY WET! We actually started off in dryish conditions. Jay and I headed out onto the course in about the 4th wave. These events are held on open roads so aren’t mass starts. Instead they let you off in waves of about 12 people separated by a few minutes. As we left...
This was the second year in a row that We’d done this event and once again it proved to be a hit, mainly because of the weekend of free camping in Wales that comes along with it. The MTB Marathon on the Saturday didn’t start until 10am so we had a relaxed morning before lining...
We’ve just got back from another excellent weekend away camping for free in Wales courtesy of Chain Reaction Cycles and their series of MTB Marathons and Road Sportives. Morgan was on one of the floats in the Borth Carnival dressed as Doctor Who on Friday, so we packed the camping and cycling kit while he...
I’m supposed to be doing the CRC Crickhowell Mountain Bike Marathon on Saturday and then the Schwalbe Road Sportive on Sunday, but it didn’t quite fit into my training plan. I’ve therefore made the classic mistake of trying to fit all my training in before the weekend so that I can do these two events. Really...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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