Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I moved the moth trap away from the Lilac last night and had a much more manageable catch which didn’t take long to go through: 2x White Ermine 1x Eyed Hawkmoth 1x Oligia sp. 2x Common Marbled Carpet 2x Broom Moth 3x Heart and Dart 12x Flame Shoulder 3x Setaceous Hebrew Character 10x Small Square-spot...
I’ve been using Dropbox for a while as a really useful way of sharing files with clients, friends and family. It’s very clever in the way it works with a nice little menu item on my computer that links directly to my local dropbox folder. Anything I put in that folder get automatically synced to...
Ever since buying my new windsurf speed kit way back in March, there just hasn’t been any wind. Not enough anyway. Yesterday however looked liked the most promising day so far, NE’s and hopefully Ivor our katabatic wind would show up. Usually on such occasions he starts blowing early in the morning, sometimes around 4.30am...
I took Morgan surfing again on Wednesday – Here’s the best of his photos. Looking good!
It looks as though everyone is jumping on the beekeeping bandwagon at the moment. A good thing for bees, a good thing for the environment and a good thing for beekeepers too. Even the Coop are trying to encourage people to get into beekeeping. Their ‘Plan Bee‘ has been offering training courses and has even...
One of the important things to do as a self-employed freelancer is to make sure you have multiple income streams as you just never know what is going to happen next. I don’t do too badly in that respect although it can get quite hectic now and then. As well as my main job as...
We were going to go to the RSPB reserve at Ynyshir last night for a ‘Nightjars and Glow-worms’ walk, but decided not to at the last minute so instead I put the moth trap out again. I don’t normally trap on consecutive nights as I like to make sure I give the moths a chance...
Summer must be here – I’ve just got back from taking Morgan for his first surf lesson. It wasn’t that much of a lesson really, just getting him used to being in the sea and riding a board. I gave him a push onto most waves, but got him steering whilst lying down and as...
It’s amazing just how many moths there are in the garden. I went to put the moth trap out last night at dusk and the Lilac was completely covered in moths. I couldn’t tell what species they all were as they were on the wing, but there were several different species and at least 5...
The recent large catch in my moth-trap has put us over the 100 species mark for moths recorded in the garden. Not bad in just over half a year, with much of that being winter. It was quite nice that there was a Gold Spot in the catch too which is one of my favourite...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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