Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Anna was out most of the day on Saturday, first taking the cat to the vet and then playing in a concert with the Aberystwyth Silver Band. Whilst she was out I had the urge to bake a cake… That’s the trouble with watching Saturday Kitchen! It was a cold and very wintry late March...
After the bad news on the beekeeping front yesterday I’m afraid it isn’t all good news from the fish tank either. The plants are growing really well and putting out roots all over the place. The strong lighting and the fact that the old gravel in the tank is packed full of nutrients seems to...
Some bad news I’m afraid. Our final colony of bees has died. We lost the other colonies going into winter as they didn’t manage to re-queen last summer due to the terrible weather and then weren’t strong enough to get through the winter. The one colony we did have left was strong and looked healthy...
I have to confess that most of my training seems to have been indoors lately. I’ve been on the turbo trainer loads thanks to TrainerRoad as it is much quicker and easier to fit in a turbo trainer session than it is to go out in the real world. It is also more controllable so the...
We’ve just got back from a weekend away in Cardiff and Bristol. First visiting a running shop and the Dr. Who Experience in Cardiff, then the Triathlon Shop Expo in Bristol. We then we went to my parents house in South Gloucestershire where we had dinner at my sisters (they live the other half of...
Morgan made a lovely Mother’s Day card for Anna this year, complete with a poem that he wrote himself: MUM I Love you lots and lots Mum, Your food is really yum, I really like your pizza and your pasta Hopefully it will me me run faster. I love you lots and lots Mum, Because...
We went to the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff on Saturday. We made an early start, leaving the house at just after 6am so that we could get to a running shop to buy some new shoes for me when they opened at 9.30am. We then drove to Cardiff Bay parked and wandered over to the...
The fish tank resurrection continues. One of the reasons for going to Bristol for the weekend was to visit our favourite aquarium shop, Aquajardin just outside of Gloucester. We hadn’t been here for years but as it was Mother’s Day we went along with my Mum and Dad for a wander around the adjacent Blooms...
You may not have noticed by my lack of posts about running here but once again I haven’t been running due to injury. I had to stop running last year at the end of July due to knee pain which then became shin pain and a suspected stress fracture. An MRI scan didn’t show too...
The plants I ordered for the fish tank arrived yesterday. Rather than pick individual plants I decided to just buy a plant collection specifically for a 36″ tank from Java-Plants. Not only was this a lot cheaper but it was easier too and would give us a good start. The plants all arrived in good...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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