Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I guess it helps if your feet match fairly well. It’s not essential, but it doesn’t do too much harm. Mine had been a little uneven for a while. My right big toe had most of its toenail missing for some reason and my left ankle had been sore and a little swollen since I...
I don’t have much work on at the moment, which means I don’t have any money. If you need a web designer then feel free to hire me, I’m quite happy to do computer tuition in the area too and I’m pretty good at turning my hand to gardening or painting as well. Anyway, this...
I know we like living in Ynyslas but I think sometimes people don’t always agree. To be honest we don’t mind what other people think and if everyone wanted to live where we do it wouldn’t be as nice as it is. However I’ve just come across this article from Wales Online which confirms what we’ve...
Everyone was looking forward to the Coed y Brenin Enduro, especially after the warmest and driest week on record for this time of year. We were hoping for fast, dry and dusty trails. Jay and Beale came up from Bristol on Saturday afternoon and stayed with us. We all walked over to the beach and went out...
Fed up with posting the same stuff to Twitter, Facebook and Google+. Me too, in fact I barely bothered with Google+ as I couldn’t be bothered to post there as well as elsewhere, but I’ve just come across a Chrome Plugin that not only allows me to see everything from my Facebook Stream and Twitter Stream...
The sunshine really does make things nicer. Borth and Ynyslas are nice all the time, even when it’s blowing a gale and pouring with rain it has a certain, exposed charm all of its own, but when the sun is out and ‘the living is easy’ it can’t be beat. These last few days have...
Shem posted on Facebook yesterday about the Ying and Yang of his day. Sitting in a hot tub under the stars with owls and bats flying over head was the plus side, clearing up a mess made by his dog wasn’t so pleasant. The unseasonably hot weather that we’ve been having seems to have put a smile...
Yes, at long last I put the moth trap out last night. It was a gorgeous night with light winds, clear skies and temperatures only dropping to 15ºC – are you sure this is Wales at the end of September. There weren’t loads of moths in the trap but there were enough. 66 in total from...
Just as we were getting ready for winter and getting used to the cold, grey, windy autumnal weather we’d been having, September has thrown us a bit of a surprise. I don’t think it counts as an Indian Summer quite yet as the official definition is a period of seven days or more occurring after...
During a brief break in the weather yesterday we managed to get out in the garden and not only mow the lawn but harvest some vegetables too. Onions Courgettes Yellow Courgettes Tomatoes Carrots Parsnips Beans Beetroot Spring Onions Not a bad haul really and it made for a delicious dinner. We certainly got more than...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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