Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I don’t think I can quite call these bonsai trees yet, but I’m quite impressed with how well they’ve grown. They were all grown from seeds that came from a bonsai seed kit that Morgan bought me for Christmas last year. The seeds were labelled as ‘mixed bonsai’ which didn’t give me much confidence. I...
It may have been a week ago that I was white-water kayaking in the Lake District, but I do have some keepsakes from the trip. The best of which requires the sharing of a photo of my upper thigh – not quite my bum you’ll be pleased to hear! Impressive hey – fortunately it’s not...
Having now kayaked on 3 different rivers in my life (the Dee at Mile End Mill, the lower Tryweryn and the Teifi at Llandysul) I was beginning to feel like an actual kayaker. Time therefore to join the Aber Kayakers on a trip to the Lake District to paddle 4 more rivers. Doing so would...
Swimming Goggles with a heads-up display, Bluetooth connectivity, live metrics and automatic interval detection – whatever next! Yep, smart swim goggles are here and they’re better than I was expecting. The Form Swim Goggles have all of this and more. They work well and are actually useful rather than just a gimmick. I wasn’t sure...
We’ve had just about a year of solar generation now. Time to take a look at the stats. That’s easy to do thanks to the solar stats pages I built on this website. The solar generation overview page shows today’s solar generation, along with some charts of generation over the past month, and some totals....
As I’ve had some news from various medical tests I thought it was time for an update. The heart attack I had almost 18 months ago came as a bit of a surprise. I had none of the usual risk factors, I was otherwise very fit, very healthy and had a pretty good lifestyle as...
There have been some Spooky Going’s on at Ynyslas today… Say hello to Robo-Ghost!
I’ve posted before about my little challenge of trying to run 10km in fewer minutes than my age in years. Honestly, it wasn’t ever much of an issue, not since I’ve been 40 anyway. Back then a 40-minute 10km run was actually relatively easy. As I progressed through my 40’s I could still run 10km...
After a day of being a beginner and learning new things on the water at Llandysul on Sunday, it was back to what I know on Monday. 20 knot WSW winds and small waves at Ynyslas with the sun shining. Perfect conditions for my 5.7m sail and 104 ltr board. Alistair was out too on...
I was supposed to spend the weekend kayaking with Aber Kayakers at Llandysul. I don’t think there were enough people signed up for the weekend, so it became a day trip on Sunday. That suited me as it’s only a short drive anyway and I could not only do other things on Saturday, but I...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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