Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
It’s nice to see some Spring colour in the garden. We’ve also started to think about sowing seeds for the summer vegetables as well. On the list are courgettes, beans, peas, tomatoes, peppers and chilli’s. We already have garlic, onions and leeks that are doing well and hopefully the herbs and soft fruit will be...
Progress has been a little slower than expected on the conservatory so far this week because the builders have had some issues with their van so didn’t always have the necessary materials on the replacement van that they had to use. They were also called away this morning to tidy up a few loose ends...
It’s been a frustrating week here in our Simple Life of Luxury. Trying to get through to customer service representatives can be a nightmare. As I mentioned in a previous post, our phone line went down again in exactly the same way that it did at Christmas. We could see the wires hanging off the...
Here’s the other video from my Mountain Bike Ride at Llandegla on Sunday.
Anna and Morgan were away on the Isle of Man for the weekend and I had to collect them from Liverpool on Sunday afternoon which provided me with a perfect excuse for a mountain bike ride at Llandegla. I drove up in the morning on lovely clear roads in the sunshine. The drive itself was...
Anna and Morgan are away for the weekend so things have been pretty quiet around the house for me. Things have also remained remarkably tidy which is nice though! Annoyingly our phone line has gone down again. It did this over Christmas and we discovered that a cable had come loose on the telegraph pole...
I’ve just taken delivery of a very shiny bee-smoker. I think that’s everything we need now, except the bees of course, but they are due to arrive in May. We can’t wait to get started with our adventures in beekeeping now.
There’s been some wind again the last few days. It’s normally very windy here all the time, but so far this year there hasn’t been a huge amount and when there has been I’ve either been away, busy with something else or unable to get out windsurfing for some other reason. This week has been...
As well as our new conservatory, we’re also getting the soffits and fascia boards replaced around the house. When we built the house about 7 years ago we had wooden fascia boards and soffits but these haven’t lasted very well at all. We need to be constantly painting them to keep them looking nice and...
With the arrival of our new beehives last weekend, and the order of our new bees that should arrive in May, we thought we’d better order all the supplies and tools that we’ll need for our new adventure into the world of beekeping. Today a large parcel with a whole load of beekeeping supplies arrived...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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