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Geocaching with a Samsung Galaxy S2 2

Geocaching with a Samsung Galaxy S2

Now, I may be a bit of an Apple fan boy, but when someone offers me an alternative toy to play with I’m not going to say no. Yesterday, Alan from Bridging the Rural Divide popped around with a lovely looking Samsung Galaxy S2 smart phone. It has the ‘everytrail’ loaded onto it and they...

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Bike Bits

I’m still out of action due to torn ligaments in my ankle. I didn’t do the Lake Bala swim on Saturday as I thought it was best to rest it so that I’ll hopefully still be able to do the Bontrager 24/12 MTB race in a couple of weeks where I’m supposed to be ‘racing’...

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Beaver Badges

Morgan has been attending Beavers for a while now. Beavers are the younger version of cubs and scouts and they therefore get up to similar things. The group he goes to is fairly active and he seems to have fun. Unfortunately he misses quite a few sessions as we often have other commitments on the...

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Ceredigion Moths

It was a good night for the moth trap last night. Overcast, light winds and temperatures only dropping to 13.2ºC. I put the trap out without a sheet again so didn’t have huge numbers in the trap but there was still plenty to go through with 60 moths from 21 different species Here’s the list....

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Bees on the Mend

Saturday proved to be a perfect day for beekeeping. Light winds, sunshine and temperatures around 18ºC. We were due to make hive inspections of all of the hives in our apiary and had a bit of re-homing to do on one colony. Pendam – Nuc Box This Nuc box contains an artificial swarm from the...

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Exercise – It’s not good for you!

I’m supposed to be competing in a 1km swim in Lake Bala on Saturday. A few fellow members of the INTR Tri club are coming along too as are some people from swimfit. The swim is organised byt he British Long Distance Swimming Association. I say ‘supposed’ to be doing it because I managed to...

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Anniversary Breakfast

It was our wedding anniversary on Sunday, but as we were camping in Shropshire and riding in the Marshbrook CRC MTB Marathon we decided to have a day out on our own on Monday as well. Anna took the day off work, as did I, and we dropped Morgan off at school. We felt a...

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Marshbrook CRC MTB Marathon – Race Report

Hopefully you’ve already read my post about our camping weekend in Shropshire. We were there so that I could do the Marshbrook round of the CRC MTB Marathon series along with my brothers Jay and Brad. I also met another friend, Darren there who was riding it too. Darren, Jay and myself had signed up...

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Camping in Shropshire

I’ve barely ever been to Shropshire properly before but we’ve just got back from a lovely weekend camping just outside of a little village called Marshbrook, not far from Church Stretton in the Shropshire Hills. We were there to do the CRC MTB-Marathon on Sunday (more on that in another post) but as part of...