Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Our hard work on the garden is beginning to pay off. As well as looking nice out there, we’ve already had some garden produce. As well as the strawberries we’ve had a few raspberries with plenty more on the way. The blackcurrants and red currants seem to have been striped by the birds, but we’re...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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