Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I’ve just found this article in my ‘Drafts’ folder that never quite got published for some reason. It was written in November 2008 and at the time I was fretting over the garden and the amount of work that would be involved to restore it. So, I thought I’d add it today, along with a few...
I don’t want to speak too soon, but after a few weeks off running due to a knee injury I’ve taken my first tentative steps towards become a fully rounded triathlete again. I’ve still be swimming and biking despite the knee injury, but to be a triathlete you need to be running as well and...
Check out Morgan’s latest cycling skills – He’s getting some lean on this bend!
Morgan and I try to get in at least one days worth of geocaching during the school holidays and always seem to enjoy ourselves. Yesterday was no exception and gave us chance to try out the Geo Bucket geocaching iPad app properly. I’d noticed that with thousands of geocaches in its database Geo Bucket seemed...
I did another Open Water swim in Abeyrstwyth last night. This time it was to check out a suitable course for the up-coming inaugural Aberystwyth Sprint Triathlon. Conditions were wuite different to my last swim here with increasingly strong winds from thr SW making the sea quite choppy and a little bit of swell as well. The planned...
I had a meeting to attend on the seafront in Aberystwyth yesterday so thought it would be rude not to go for a little swim first. Before getting in I had a little chat with Tommy who was life-guarding, left my clothes and such like in the lifeguard tower and set off for a lovely...
Temperatures remained above 15°C last night, with a little bit of rain and some mist, but we had a fairly good collection of moths in the trap this morning. 72 moths in total from 23 different species, including a couple of new ones. Here’s the list 2x Drinker 3x Willow Beauty 2x Gold Spot 1x...
After our visit to the Silver Mountain Experience on Thursday, we pulled out the iPad and decided to test a new (to me) gecoaching app that we have. It’s called Geo Bucket and I downloaded it because I was looking for a new app that we could use offline for gecoaching, specifically whilst in New...
I promised I’d take Morgan to the Silver Moutnain Experience during the school holidays, and yesterday was the day. The Silver Mountain Experience is the re-vamped Llywernog Silver-Lead Mine, a mine that stopped working in the early 1900’s and has been a visitor attraction as an historic mine and mining museum since 1973. It has...
Last time I posted about the bees on July 31st things were looking up in our home apiary. All three hives were looking good with newly risen queens in a couple of them and brood and stores on the increase. We were beginning to think that we might end up with some honey and some...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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Hiking / The Welsh Nuttalls / Wales
Backbreaking but Beautiful: Nuttall Bagging in North Wales
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
