Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I’m not a great fan of football in any respect. I don’t play it and never have, I don’t watch it and never have and I couldn’t tell you anything about it, so I won’t try to. In fact, I kind of dislike the whole football scene as it just seems to revolve around lots of...
On our way home from Dartmoor, we stopped off in Bovey Tracy at the House of Marbles. It was a slightly odd place, but then anywhere that is dedicated to marbles is going to be. They had some huge marbles and marbles of all kinds in the museum, along with lots of mesmerising marble runs....
A few members of the INTR Tri club went for a gorgeous little swim along the coast yesterday. We started from North Beach in Aberystwyth in slightly choppy seas and sunny spells. Along with myself there was Graham and Sharon, Amanda and Kim. We swam out towards a buoy in order to avoid the rocks...
Just another post about our trip to Dartmoor and a visit to Buckfast where we went to the Butterfly and Otter sanctuary. The butterflies were spectacular and we followed a keeper around whilst he was feeding the otters so got to know a little of the history of each otter as he gave a talk...
As well as visiting Plymouth during family holidays as a child, we always used to spend a day swimming in the river at Hexworthy on Dartmoor. During our recent camping trip to Dartmoor, it was therefore my duty to introduce Morgan to the joys of playing in the river. We went wild swimming at Hexworthy...
Whilst in Plymouth, Morgan and I had a ‘ride’ on a London Eye style big wheel perched atop the Hoe. The wheel was almost 60 metres in height, twice as high as Smeatons tower so provided some amazing views down onto the Hoe and out across both Plymouth Sound and the city of Plymouth. It...
Everyone knows that my memory for past events isn’t great and when family conversations turn to things we used to do I seem to have lived in a separate world to everyone else, never quite being able to remember anything that we did. I do however remember family holidays to Plymouth and more importantly some...
I came across a cool little idea yesterday on a website called ‘Dear Photograph‘. It’s a simple idea where you take a photograph of a photograph. The photograph comes from the past but you overlay it in the same position in the present so that you end up with a photograph of the past in...
No trip to Dartmoor would be complete without a stop to say hello to the ponies and a climb up the occasional Tor. We therefore made our trip last week complete by doing both. There were ponies everywhere so stopping for a quick ‘hello’ was easy. There were also plenty of tors that looked inviting,...
I’m still waiting for the official Bontrager 24/12 video to come out as they were filming all weekend and usually produce something quite slick, but I took my GoPro HD around with me and got some footage of the first lap or so. I’ve already written a race report from the Bontrager 24/12 which has...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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