Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
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...
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...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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