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National Science and Engineering Week

For those who don’t know it is National Science and Engineering Week this week and as usual the science departments from the university have got together and put on a 3 day hands-on exhibition for local school children. As well as having over 1000 primary school children through the doors throughout the week they also...

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Rise of the Alliums

It’s been a long wait, but the Alliums that I planted out (as part of a birthday present) back in October of last year are finally making an appearance. Every time I look at the little border along the conservatory there are more appearing. The edges of the border need tidying up and I could...

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An unexpected PB

I managed to surprise myself and run an unexpected Personal Best for 5km the other day – Well, PB for recent years anyway. I’m not supposed to be that fast quite yet as I haven’t started any speed work within this years periodised training plan yet, and going quite so hard is probably a bit...

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Bees Under the Floor – Pesky things!

We’ve been busy this weekend building our new hives. Morgan has been helping and then today all three of us were at it and we’ve gradually turned the pallet of wood that arrived last week into two new beehives. There’s another two to build yet though. First we have to seal all of the cut...

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Beekeeping in the Dark

Things are beginning to get busy in our beekeeping world again. Yesterday we took delivery of a pallet of supplies. I was sat working at my computer when a huge articulated lorry pulled up outside, there was a knock on the door and the delivery driver said there was a pallet for us. My mind raced, I...

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A New Apiary Site

Hopefully, if our bees survive the next month or so, they’ll expand rapidly in number and we’ll end up with more colonies than we started with. Our plan this year is to ‘make increase’ by performing artificial swarms and re-housing the swarms in new hives. Our garden isn’t big enough for too many hives and not really...

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Windsurfing – The Pleasure and the Pain!

Another great day here in paradise. It started with a run with the triathlon club. We went from Machynlleth out to Pantperthog, up a beast of hill and then I left the others to get on with it before heading back to Mach for a swim. This was of course followed by a bacon sandwich...

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Weird GPS route from Garmin Forerunner 910XT

My new Garmin Forerunner 910XT has been working really well. I’ve used it on a few runs, the odd bike ride and a few times in the pool and it’s been spot on with the routes it has shown and has managed to count every single length in the pool. That was until Friday when...

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Periodised Training Plan

In an attempt to improve my triathlon performances I’ve been working with a coach and I’ve been trying to follow a periodised training plan this year. Periodisation There are plenty of quite large books that go into great depths about periodisation in triathlon training (one of the best being Joe Friels “The Triathlete’s Training Bible“....