Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
One of Morgan’s new toys for Christmas were some Hexbug Nano’s. These were new to me, but they’re actually quite good. OK, they won’t compete with Lego, but there is something about them. Hexbugs are toy ‘automatons’ that scurry around bumping into things and reacting to pressure. The original ones were quite a bit bigger than...
Well, New Year’s Eve in the Cole household was exciting. I was ill, Anna wasn’t up for a late night, but Morgan insisted, so we sat around until midnight, watched the fireworks in London on the TV, had a quick drink and an indoor firework of our own, said Happy New Year to each other...
After writing a weblog post yesterday about our geocaching stats we were motivated to get out there and try to hit the 300 mark before the end of the year. The rain had stopped for the first time in months so we got kitted up and drove into Aberystwyth to try to find some caches....
We haven’t done loads of geocaching in 2012, but we have done some and we hit a few milestones too, including of course a distance record with a geocache find some 11,565 miles from home! There are lots of ways of viewing and displaying your geocaching stats and I’m still not sure which ones I...
I’ve been pretty healthy for the past year or so. There was a time when I seemed to get every cold and lurgy that was going, but over the past year I’ve been pretty much illness free. I’m not sure what to attribute this to but I have made a few changes and I’m sure...
What’s going on here then? I have lots of email addresses and they all end up in one way or another going to a Gmail account. Some of the email addresses on certain domains have actual email accounts associated with them. I don’t actually login via POP to these addresses, instead I have Gmail set up...
You may remember that Morgan’s pet guinea pig Squeak died a few months ago. Morgan was heart broken at the time and it also left us with a dilemma. Morgan had another guinea pig called Bo. I was concerned that Bo would get lonely on her own. She is only about 3 years old and...
Wales is known for being wet and rainy but I’ve never know it like this before. It seems to have been raining pretty much non-stop for months. Everything is sodden, the ground is saturated, low-lying areas are flooded and rivers are at bursting point. The garden is a quagmire and where it isn’t it has...
I haven’t done much training over Christmas and I’ve now got a sore throat so decided against a run today as well. Instead I went for a little windsurf session off the seafront in some moody conditions. Nicely powered with a 5m sail and some nice ramps out there too. Nothing too extreme, just a fun...
Mmm, now that was an epic hot chocolate. Complete with chocolate chips, marshmallows and squirty cream and the chocolate itself was thick enough to stand a spoon in. Nice!
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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