Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Anna and I, along with half of the Aberystwyth Beekeeping Association attending a lecture in the National Library on Wednesday. It was a lunchtime lecture so we all met up for dinner in the cafe first and then headed into the very nice lecture theatre. The lecture was titled ‘Plants for Bees‘ and was given...
Thanks to my 8 puddings after a carvery at The Marine a couple of weekends ago and then a monstrous 16 puddings at the pudding party on Sunday I seem to be getting a reputation for nno-stop eating. Maybe I should take up competitive eating instead of triathlon, I think I’d be good at that...
Here you go, proof of the now quite old shrimp that has been living in out derelict fish tank for years. He / She doesn’t know what to do with himself / herself now that there is water, light, heating and such like in the tank and will be in heaven soon once the tank...
My turbo training schedule had me doing an FTP test on Monday courtesy of TrainerRoad. These tests are always hard, so I guess it was my punishment for such a pig out at the pudding party on Sunday. This was the third time I’d done such a test so I’m getting used to them now but...
As you know from my recent post about resurrecting the fish tank, I like to do things a little differently. Rather than bubble air through the tank to aerate the water for the fish, I bubble carbon dioxide through the tank which promotes really lush plant growth and the plants in turn filter and aerate the water...
Well, that was an unexpected surprise. I thought we did well on the pudding front last weekend with a huge carvery followed by 7 full size puddings and a slice of chocolate birthday cake, but that has been exceeded today! I had an early breakfast and then went for a run and a swim followed...
Amazon.co.uk Widgets You know me, I always have a few projects on the go, and at the weekend I started yet another! When we first built our house about 10 years ago I set up a nice planted aquarium. I don’t like to do things the ‘normal way’ so rather than have a tank with...
Whilst adding an image to a recent news post on my Website Design website I saw a gallery of images uploaded to articles over the past few years. I was struck by the way it looked so took a screenshot of it. These are of course all little snippets of designs I have produced over...
Christmas may only be a distant memory now, and my birthday was a couple of weeks before that, but one of my birthday presents was a Meade 15mm eyepiece for my Skywatcher 130 telescope. I have briefly used it once or twice since then but Sunday night was the first time I got to use it properly. This isn’t...
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