Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I had a good day at the Cardiganshire Moth Workshop in Borth on Saturday. There was a good attendance with 12 people there, including some from further south in the County which is promising. We started off going through the contents of some moth traps that had been left out the night before. The one...
Sunday dawned and time for the End of Month Ride. The weather forecast was terrible, but once up at Pendam although it looked pretty murly and was quite chilly all looked OK. I met Dave, John, Jimmy and James there and after the usual pfaff and chat in the car park we headed off. The...
Yes, yet another post about moths… Well, things are hotting up in the moth world and I’m off to a moth workshop in Borth today so I’m enjoying my moth trapping at the moment. Don’t worry, I’m out on my MTb tomorrow and then on holiday for a week so you’ll get something different soon!...
I identified two of the moths caught in our soggy moth trap last night as Clouded Drab (Orthosia incerta), a variable species that can make identification a little difficult. I started having second thoughts about my identification when I put them next to each other for a comparative photo. As you can see they look...
It was very wet out there last night (14.6 mm of rain whilst the moth trap was out), windy at times too at around 20 knots but mild with a minimum temp of 6.6ºC. The moth trap was partly full of water, but there were a few moths in it. Clouded Drab x2 Early Grey...
It seems as though the photos of the mating pair of Dasystoma salicella moths I took at the weekend have been in demand. I posted one of them on a forum and immediately had a couple of people ask if they could use it for their own personal records. Obviously I didn’t mind and sent...
Recently my turbo trainer sessions seem to have been getting easier. I keep increasing the wattage on set workouts and still manage to finish them. I did notice the other day though that the tyre pressure in my rear tyre was a little low so pumped it up a bit and that seems to have...
The weather looked good for moth-trapping yesterday and as things seem to be hotting up in the moth world, we put the trap out again. It wasn’t a great catch, but there were two new species for the garden which is all good for the learning process. Of course, as this is my first year...
It looked like a nice morning for a walk today, the winds were light, the sun was shining and I’d heard that there were some Orange Underwing moths (Archiearis parthenias) around at a local nature reserve. Apparently they can be seen flying around birch tress in the sunshine during March. I had a good look,...
I wasn’t expecting any wind this weekend really, so I went for a little run in the morning – more on ‘why’ I did this in a forthcoming post! I then went for a little cycle around Ynyslas with Morgan and after lunch Anna and Morgan fell asleep on the sofa’s and I was surprised...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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