Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I’ve always liked photos of hills in the mist receding into the distance at sunset – I just never get the opportunity to take photos of them myself, but whilst chilling at the campsite last week the opportunity presented itself, so here’s the view across Dartmoor from our tent.
After a weekend at Newnham Park near Plymouth for the Bontrager 24/12 2011 MTB event, Anna, Morgan and I packed up our tent and headed off to Dartmoor for our annual family holiday. The plan was to camp for a few nights on the edge of Dartmoor and explore some places that I used to...
It was a busy night in the moth trap last night. Despite not putting out a sheet, just the trap itself and not investigating it early in the morning there was still 185 moths in the trap, from 36 different species. Seven of which were new garden records as well. 1 x Oligia sp. 1...
Morgan and his cousins having fun at the Bontrager 24/12 event.
We’ve just got back from a week away which all started with the Bontrager 24/12 MTB race in Newnham Park, near Plymouth. We had a good drive down from here, although the weather wasn’t great and as we got nearer to the campsite the weather actually became atrocious with driving rain loads of spray on the motorway...
Don’t forget to spend 15 minutes sitting in the sunshine counting butterflies for the Big Butterfly Count. Morgan and I have done it today, but as per usual despite seeing loads before and after, during the 15 minutes we allocated we only saw a few. 1x Large White 2x Green Veined White 2x Small Tortoiseshell...
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]ummer’s back and Morgan has been out flying his kite on the beach here at Ynyslas… It was a little too windy for him so I had to rescue him as he got dragged down the beach. He seemed to enjoy it though.
Morgan and I had a nice little walk through the dunes earlier. We were actually wandering across to the beach to check out what was happening with the RSPB Shear Madness. Unfortunately there wasn’t anyone there so we couldn’t find out more about the Manx Shearwaters or let them know that I often see them when...
The trouble with bees is that you just never know quite what to expect! Our last inspection was pretty good, all four colonies in all four hives were looking up with queens, eggs and larvae in all of them, no signs of swarming and they were beginning to draw out empty frames and start building...
This seems to be becoming something of a recurring theme for me… I sign up for a race, prepare badly, get injured and always have plenty of excuses before the big day. This time it’s no different but everything is a little more exaggerated than normal. First up, for some reason at the end of last year I decided...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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