Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Morgan is a little spoilt by his Granny – But I suppose that’s what grandparents are for and it does mean that he enjoyed our recent trip to the Isle of Man as well. On top of having special food cooked for him such as pancakes for breakfast, there were plenty of other little treats...
I’ve visited the Isle of Man many times now, sometimes with surfing kit, other times with windsurfing kit, once or twice with kitesurfing kit and yet others with Mountain Bikes. I’ve windsurfed, surfed, kite-surfed and mountain biked all over the island, I’ve done the Isle of Man End2End MTB race twice, but I’ve never been...
Another glorious day on the Isle of Man – sunshine, blue skies, a cold wind, 4°C and snow-lined roads. I made an early start and headed out for a bike ride whilst Anna and Morgan had breakfast. My ride took me through Colby and into Port St Mary, along the coast road into Castletown and...
After a long day and night travelling to the Isle of Man we didn’t want to waste a day of our holiday catching up on sleep, so we had breakfast when we arrived at Anna’s Mums and then headed off for a day out. We had a geocache or two planned, the sun was shining...
We’ve just arrived in the Isle of Man after a long day travelling on Wednesday. I had a meeting in Aberystwyth in the morning and then went for a run before we started travelling up. My run went surprisingly well considering the fact that I’m not feeling at all like a ‘triathlete’ at the moment....
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...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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