Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
You’ve heard of people getting things related to their favourite sports tattooed on themselves, but I managed to ‘brand’ myself by burning a perfect imprint of a brake disc rotor into my calf. I’m telling you, it’ll be all the rage before long, no self-respecting mountain biker will be seen without one, what better way...
I had a lovely drive through parts of mid Wales this morning. I’d got up early to go for a record attempt on a local Mountain Bike route. As I left the house at 5am I was greeted by a flock of geese flying low over the coastal raised bog as the sun rose with...
The Mountain Biking trails at Nant yr Arian have been riding really well these last few days thanks to the hot, dry weather. The puddles have all dried up, the surfaces are hard packed, fast and predictable so I decided that it was a good time to try to break my record around the Pendam...
I was pleasantly surprised at the weekend to find that locals are entitled to a free season ticket at Ynyslas Nature Reserve. The season ticket normally only costs £3.50 anyway and allows you to park on the beach at the estuary all year round, but I went there on Sunday only to find that I...
It’s a shame the weekend is only 2 days long, especially with the weather we’ve been having. Saturday was glorious and we had a fairly lazy day in the garden. It’s not often that you can spend all day outside in shorts and a ‘T’-shirt around here, and over 12 hours in the sun seems...
Summer is here (I wonder how long for). Friday was gloriously sunny and reached 24.6ºC (A May record since the weather station records began). Yesterday was similarly sunny and reached 23.8ºC. Today looks as though it will be a scorcher too. As usual I got up early (5am ish), answered e-mails and did a little...
Another video from the MBR team on their Welsh road trip. This time from Cader Idris. It’s a shame they weren’t there a day later as they got quite a bit of mist and murk on the top whereas the next day it was bathed in gorgeous sunshine. Mind you, I suppose as it will...
Looks as though the weekend ahead should be a scorcher. It hit 24.5ºC here today according to the weather station and looks set to continue throughout the weekend. Still not sure if there will be a katabatic wind in the morning though, so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to go windsurfing, but I...
Whilst Kia and Shaun were here earlier in the week and the sun was shining I decided to put up a hammock in the garden. Morgan of course decided he loved it as well and wants it up all the time now. I have to admit though, it is quite comfortable and if I still...
I haven’t mentioned the garden for a while. It was looking lovely last year, but for various reasons that I won’t go into here (not yet anyway) it was destroyed over the winter. The Pergola was ripped down, most of the grass has gone and many plants were uprooted, squashed or otherwise met an untimely...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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