Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
On our way home from a swim in Aberydtwyth last night there were loads of moths in the headlights so I decided to put the moth trap out. Unfortunately the wind filled in quite a bit overnight getting to around 30 knots, so despite the fact that the temperature stayed up close to 20°C there weren’t...
<a HREF=”http://ws.amazon.co.uk/widgets/q?rt=tf_cw&ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=GB&ID=V20070822%2FGB%2Falslikklworls%2F8010%2F920056c4-9508-40b9-a7d5-9daeb9be6fe7&Operation=NoScript”>Amazon.co.uk Widgets</a> In order to maintain some run fitness whilst unable to run due to a knee injury I decided to give aqua-jogging a go the other day. I may look like a complete fool doing it, but I actually quite enjoyed it! I thought that aqua-jogging non-stop for a whole session would be...
Now that was the way open water swimming should be. As it’s the school holidays Morgan was at home with me all day so I couldn’t swim during the day. Anna was playing in the silver band (in the bandstand on Aberystwyth Seafront) in the evening so I planned to go for a swim off...
I’ve been asked to add a post here about contact lenses for sports, so here’s a guest blog post courtesy of Total Marketing. People switch from eyeglasses to contacts every day, for a number of different reasons. Eyeglasses still work just fine for the people who prefer to wear them, and there are a number...
As part of the rehab for my recent knee injury, I’ve bought myself a foam roller and have since been diligently foam rolling every day. Essentially foam rolling is a self-massage technique that should help relieve knots in muscles and fascia. We all know that riders in the Tour de France finish every day with a...
What to do? Sit in and watch the Olympics from London 2012 which have been amazing, or go out and enjoy the brief spell of sunny weather? We’ve been trying to do both and it looks as though Morgan has been inspired by some of the athletes. So much so that he decided to start...
The sun was shining, Morgan was off school and I’d promised him we would get the canoe out and go to the beach. So, after a meeting in the morning that is exactly what we did. Slip, Slap Slop and we were ready to do battle with the sun and the waves. Our inflatable canoe that...
We’ve had plenty of chilli’s from the chilli plants this year!
I’ve been looking with envy at the various Park Runs around the country lately and had even thought about organising one myself in Aberystwyth but it looks as though someone else is about to do all of the hard work for me. There’s news about that someone is organising a Park Run. The Aberystwyth Athletics...
That didn’t take too long – I was half expecting this mornings moth count to be a long and difficult one but there were far fewer moths in the trap than I was expecting. Just 44 moths from 13 different species, with nothing new for us and nothing too difficult to ID either. Here’s the...
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