Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Mmm, Chocolate Brownies for breakfast today!! Anna asked me to make some Baklava Muffins for her to take to work on Tuesday but I decided to bake some brownies instead. Of course, having baked them we had to try them before giving them out to her work colleagues and they were perfect. Crispy on top with...
There must be something wrong with Morgan – he didn’t want the cake mixture scrapings from the mixing bowl!! Not to worry, more for me. His tune soon changed once he got to smell the date cake cooking though and I’m not surprised as you’ve never smelt anything so nice. I’m salivating too whilst waiting...
Amongst the variety of stalls that the Borth 2nd Scouts run at the local summer charities fete is a bric-a-brac stall that we always find quite depressing. We’ve helped out with it for a few years now and it’s never that exciting. Don’t get me wrong, we are of course grateful for all donations to...
As promised, here’s the recipe I used for the Apple and Lime Raita that we had with our Banana Curry the other evening. It’s very easy to make, was a nice refreshing, crisp accompaniment to the curry and I think it’ll work well as an exotic salad / coleslaw with barbeques and such like. We...
Just a quick photo to show you that the plants are growing well in our newly re-established aquarium. I’ve already had to cut them back and remove some a few times just to stop them getting too out of control and overgrown. There’s still a bit of a problem with algae though so we need...
It still isn’t warm here but temperatures have at least made it into double figures for the past few days. It got to 12°C here yesterday and pretty much stayed that way all night as well with a minimum temperature of 10.1°C. Combined with misty, murky conditions, the relatively warm temperatures seemed ideal for moths so...
Now that was a delicious dinner! With little work on at the moment I’ve become a bit of a house-husband so I’m doing my best to rustle up some new and different dishes for dinner. So, today after a quick run (3x 3 minute hill reps) doing the house-husband chores that I do each day...
It’s good to see that some companies do in fact listen to their customers. I had a little moan a few days ago about the sudden changes to the Garmin Connect Calendar, and I wasn’t the only one unhappy with the updates. Thankfully it looks as though they have listened to our complaints and have...
Yep, these little beauties were pretty nice! They are evil though as each little square which is barely more than a mouthful has somewhere in the region of 150 calories. Trouble is they are just far too easy to pop in your mouth. It’s not surprising that they are so calorific mind you as the...
Who’d would have thought it, after a solid twelve hours under wall to wall sunshine in the garden yesterday, there were some snow flurries on my run this morning! It was pretty chilly out there running around the hills behind Machynlleth but I managed to cover 9 miles up and over a pretty big hill....
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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