Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Yes, another night and another bonfire party and fireworks display, that seems to be all we’ve done lately. Last night was the turn of the annual party at Dave and Sarah’s, our next door neighbours. As per usual it was full of their friends, most of whom are from Borth and Ynyslas and most of...
What a gorgeous day for a walk in the woods around RSPB Ynyshir as part of a Fungi Foray. Gorgeous blue skies, no wind and a bit of a nip in the air. Apparently we were a little late in the season for many of the edible mushrooms and some of the ones we found...
We had a busy night last night, but got to see the Aberystwyth Round Table fireworks. We didn’t pay to go in as we’d paid to see the Machynlleth fireworks display last weekend, it was pouring with rain and we have a bonfire party to go to tonight as well. So, we though we’d watch...
I’m beginning to enjoy running again at the moment. My last run was good and I was pleased with my average pace of less than 7 minute miles. It’s not fast and nowhere near as fast as I used to manage 20 years ago when I could easily bang out a 10k in 40 minutes,...
I don’t post about every windsurf session or bike ride that I do here – You’d soon become bored if I did and besides, I don’t have time to actually do them and to blog about it all the time, but today’s session was a particularly good one! It was blowing a hoolie and had...
It’s not long until Christmas, so time to start preparing. Whilst looking for presents for Morgan I came across this Lego™ City advent calendar. OK, so it costs quite a bit more than an unhealthy chocolate advent calendar but you get a great Lego™ calendar with a new mini-build every day through the advent period....
My new favourite things! Not a lot I can say about them other than the fact they look like wetsuit boots with holes in the soles, but they help keep my feet toasty whilst out on winter rides and for that reason I love them! I’ve yet to use them on a really cold wet...
I’ve just noticed that my Carbonite Backup is now up to 100GB. I started backing up to Carbonite in December 2009 and wrote Carbonite Review when I did so. At the time it was all quite new to me but I’ve updated the review with comments as I’ve gone along and all seems to be...
My run training technique of ‘doing very little running’ seems to be working still! I would have thought that i’d need to do somewhere around 2-4 runs per week to see any improvement in my spee. I’ve only been doing that per month but still I seem to be getting better. I’ve just got back...
Autumn is here in style. I really do love this time of year. There is lots to do with Halloween, lantern parades, bonfire and firework parties, harvest festivals and plenty going on elsewhere. The trees look amazing, my drive down to South Wales yesterday for a MTB ride at Cwmcarn was spectacular. The route follows...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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