Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
While we were in New Zealand we came across a lemon, honey and ginger cordial drink. You could have it hot, cold, as an ice-cream topping, with fizzy water…however you fancy and it was lovely. We tried to find some to bring home but after seeing it everywhere couldn’t seem to find any on our...
I’ve not long got back from a lovely early morning run. The run itself wasn’t anything spectacular – I’m still suffering with a chesty cough and as it was a cold frosty morning I decided to take it easy and stuck to a gentle jog all the way around my 6.5 mile loop, but it...
It was the last day of the school holidays for Morgan today and a chance to beat our ‘consecutive days geocaching’ record so Morgan was quite motivated to get out and find at least one cache. We left the house fairly early this morning and drove to Tan y Coed for a little walk in...
Hooray, he weekend again! Excellent, we were all off and able to have a family day out. It’s a shame that Anna has to work sometimes when Morgan is off school because Morgan and I get to go out and have fun whilst she is working – But someone has to pay the bills I suppose....
Our geocaching streak continues. Morgan and I quite often do some geocaching whilst he is on school holidays and this Christmas break has been no exception. First our target was to get to a total of 300 caches which we did a couple of days ago. Morgan now has the idea of breaking our best...
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...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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