Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
After 5 days with some sort of lurgy that never really came to anything I’ve just done my first training session. 5 days without training may not sound like much, but it was actually 6 days as the day before I started feeling ill was a rest day and to me it seems like ages....
We’ve just got back from visiting friends in the lovely new house on the banks of the River Teifi in Cilgerran. We took a leisurely drive down stopping off at a few roadside geocaches on the way, and then went to Llechryd for a walk along the banks of the Teifi and a few more...
Morgan and I finally got around to building one of his Meccano models the other day. We’d been working on it on and off for weeks but it is now complete… When I say ‘we’ I think it was about 98% me, 2% Morgan as it is quite a bit trickier than Lego but he...
It’s nice to see the sunshine and some colour in the garden at last. Things are still off to a slow start this Spring though with snow still on the hills and very little happening in the garden. Here’s a few flowers enjoying the sunshine on Easter Sunday.
And today’s “Cake of the Day” is a delicious Earl Grey Tea Bread smothered in butter. Made with soft juicy mixed fruit soaked overnight in earl grey tea and treacle. The flavour of the super strong earl grey tea shines through the rich fruity bread and the treacle adds depth to the loaf. Tea Bread...
Easter Sunday and Morgan got up at about 6am. I had been awake for ages, but luckily I hadn’t bumped into the Easter Bunny. He had visited though, leaving loads of eggs on the dining room table and a list of clues for Morgan’s Easter Egg hunt. Mind you, there was plenty of chocolate on the table...
Easter Saturday dawned clear and bright. It was still cold but at least the wind had eased. I felt a little better than I had yesterday so we decided that a family day out was in order. We wanted to hide a geocache in Cwm Rheidol so we prepared some boxes, log books and cache...
It was Good Friday, I had a pre-race lurgy, Morgan was exhausted after a term of school, Anna was having a well-earned day off and we were all being lazy at home so I decided to try another recipe from our Volcanic Kitchens cookbook. This time it was Rotorua Mud Cake but there was no...
Although geocaching.com is our geocaching website of choice, there are some alternatives. Opencaching run by Garmin is one of them. Although run by Garmin it touts itself as being free and open and powered by users saying that they are a collection of hikers, bikers, techno geeks, treasure-seekers, scouts, families and just plain nature lovers who deserve to geocache the way we...
It’s my first race of the year on Sunday, the Pwllheli Triathlon and annoyingly I’ve come down with some sort of pre-race lurgy. Headache, sore throat, cough and aching all over – exactly what I don’t need. I had a rest day yesterday and have taken a day off training today as well, but unless I make...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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