Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Unlike previous years we didn’t go Xmas Tree hunting this year. We normally use Xmas tree hunting as a family get together, but this year the timing was wrong. Jay and Jenny were in Lapland along with many other family members getting married so we met up earlier in December instead and went Ice-Skating and...
After a busy day on Saturday, Anna and Morgan were off to the Arts Centre in Aberystwyth to see Peter Pan on Sunday, so seeing as my bike was in the shop being repaired I planned a day walking and geocaching in the hills with my new camera. Just before leaving I wandered across to...
We went to Morgan’s nursery Christmas party at the weekend. All of the older children did a little nativity play (well, they all dressed up and sung a few songs). The outfits were good, although there were only two Wise Men, Mary seemd to have been stood up by Joseph and for some reason there...
Just a few photos from our recent Ice-Skating session in Bristol. As you can see it was an outdoor ice-rink set up outside The Mall at Cribbs Causeway for Christmas Along with the ice-rink there was a Santa’s Grotto and various stalls selling fudge, candy floss, doughnuts and other bits and pieces. Fortunately it was...
We’ve just got back from a busy weekend in Gloucestershire doing a pre-Christmas family visit and getting my car MOT-ed. Unfortunately just after the MOT it developed an oil leak so we had to leave it there and borrow my brothers car to get back home! Morgan also came down with a sickness bug so...
The fair is in town, so after a play in the playground, a walk along the prom, watching the starlings above the pier and dinner in KFC we headed off to the fair. It isn’t something we normally do, but Morgan was pretty excited by the idea so we thought we would take him. Being...
It was a lovely day on Saturday so we decided to head into Aber and take a walk through the castle and along the prom. I’m glad we did as we were treated to a pretty spectacular display as a huge flock of Starlings came to roost under the pier. There were plenty of people...
There was a pretty impressive view of a couple of planets in the night sky last night. Lickily it was clear when we got home so as well as being able to see plenty of stars and a crescent moon we could see Venus and Jupiter.
I’ve been toying with the idea of a new camera or two for a while now. My existing camera is good, a Panasonic DMC LZ10 but it isn’t quite perfect. When I bought it I was after the best of both world, the easy an portability of a compact and the versatility of an SLR....
Hiding gecoaches for others to find can be rewarding. It can also be quite time-consuming. First you have to identify a suitable hiding place, then you have to create the cache itself, hide it, write a description and possible devise a puzzle for it and then create the listgin on the geocaching.com website and finally...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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