Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Some people love him and some people can’t stand him but I have to admit that I am a big fan of Jamie Oliver. I love the way he cooks, not worrying too much about about weighing everything out and substituting some ingredients if you fancy. We watched his new series where he was promoting...
It’s not often that you get excellent service from online businesses these days but sometimes there is the odd company that stands out and goes over and above the normal level of service. I treated myself to a pair of fluffy slipper complete with wheat warmers from Lakeland this Chrsitmas. Alan will dispute this as...
It’s never ending this bicycle maintenance malarky. Just before Xmas I took my bike into the shop for a service. I wanted to get the forks serviced so thought I’d let them give everything else a once over as well. Turned out that the forks were beyond repair so I had to get some new...
Uh oh… I’m now officially signed up to do the Mawddach Goldrush mountain bike race on Sunday March 8th. The ‘challenge will run on a course based on the famous TARW trail at Coed y Brenin with twisty, rocky sections and fast-flowing descents’. I’m not completely mad though as i’m doing it as part of...
We’ve recently returned from our holiday in Slovenia. We went to Kranjska Gora again and had a good time. The resort was a little busier than last time but we soon settled in and as before the hotel was lovely. Good rooms, good food and friendly staff… Although it was a little too warm!! Dave...
On the way through Borth yesterday I saw a Little Egret flying just above one of the drainage ditches so today morgan and I headed off for a walk along the River Leri in search of it. The Little Egret is a recent colonist, normally found along the south coast, and on parts of the...
After a couple of days of Xmas inactivity I couldn’t wait to get back out and do something. The weather was cold but sunny and there was a freezing east wind blowing so I went out for a windsurf session on the seafront at Ynyslas on Boxing Day. It was fine to start with but...
Hope you all had a good Christmas. Somehow we managed to keep Morgan awake on the way back from visiting Santa so he went to bed fairly excited but fairly early on Xmas Eve. Anna and Imanaged an early night too so I think Santa must have visited fairly early as well. Morgan woke up...
Xmas Eve was here at last so we headed off to Tywyn and the Tal-y-Llyn railway station where after a quick look around the museum we boarded the Tal-y-Llyn steam train along with a few friends and headed off up the valley into the hills. After a while and a nice scenic train ride we...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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