Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Tomorrow’s the day I do my Lake Bala Swim for Diabetes UK Cymru. There’s still chance to sponsor me and help me reach my target, so please give generously. If you’ve already sponsored me then “thanks” and spread the word. More than 146,000 people in Wales have been diagnosed with diabetes. That’s nearly five percent...
The Autumn Equinox is here. An equinox occurs twice a year, once in spring and once in autumn when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun. This means that the number of daylight hours is the same as the number of darkness hours – 12 hours each. Actually, the equninox...
All three compost bins are full to the brim, but I have an idea. The vegetables in the raised beds I built earlier in the year has pretty much finished now so I might transfer all the (not quite composted) garden rubbish from one of the compost bins to the raised bed where it can...
Another quiet night on the moth fron. Only 10 moths in the trap. 3x Lunar Underwing 1x Setaceous Hebrew Character 2x Black Rustic 1 x Rosy Rustic 2x Square-spot Rustic 1x Chevron* The Chevron was a new garden record.
Regular readers of this blog will know that I’ve recently taken up Open Water Swimming. I’ve bought a wetsuit fit for the purpose, I’ve got my GPS working whilst I’m out swimming, I’ve been for swim in the sea, the estuary and a local lake and I’ve signed up to do a swim in Lake...
I’ve had fun building lego models with Morgan this weekend, but I’m a bit lego’d out now! I do like the attention to detail in the models though and some of the little finishing touches such as the mailbox are pretty good. Morgan took some photos of our efforts though and asked me to ‘blog’...
As you can tell from recent posts our annual trip to the Isle of Man was a success. We drove from home to Liverpool on Wednesday afternoon and as usual arrived a couple of hours early for the boat so wandered around the newly refurbished dock front. It is much nicer than it used to...
As you may know from a previous weblog entry, I’m doing a mile swim in Lake Bala next Sunday in Aid of Diabetes UK. I thought I’d better do some training for it so yesterday I did a mile swim in the pool at the Sport Centre. 68 lengths non-stop isn’t the most exciting of...
I haven’t quite been moth trapping for a whole year yet but it is getting close. Last nights catch was particularly poor and with temperatures down to 4ºC we only had 9 moths in the trap from 5 different species. Some of the first moths we ever caught were there though showing that we’ve been...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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