Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I haven’t been for a walk in the hills for ages so decided to head off to the north side of Cadair Idris on Saturday for a walk and to do some geocaches. I parked at Ty Nant and walked back along the road a little way to the Gwernan Hotel and the start of...
Those who know me or read this blog regularly will know that I fund my ‘Simple Life of Luxury’ as a freelance website designer which in many ways allows me to get my work-life balance just right. Although, as I’ve said elsewhere in this blog there are pros and cons to working from home and...
As I mentioned in my last blog post we spent the day on the other side of the Dyfi estuary on Saturday as Morgan wanted to go out an take some photos. he took quite a few and once again some of them were pretty good.. Although he does seem to enjoy taking photos of...
Anna’s car has decided to die on us… Perfect timing as this has already been an expensive few weeks! First we’re having some work done on the house which will cost quite a bit, we’ve bought some new household appliances too I lost around £750 worth of windsurfing kit at sea and we booked a...
I had a nice ride around the ClimachX trail just north of Machynlleth on Monday. Unfortunately on the first bit of singletrack a rock flicked up and snapped the little gear cable guide that runs under the bottom bracket shell on my bike so the rear gears stopped working. Once we had figured out what...
I had a busy day on Saturday. A nice early start, an hour or so of work and then into the car for the drive to Bristol. Breakfast at MacDonlads and then met up with Jay’s ‘stag party’ for a korning of activities. First up was Quad biking which was fun. Muddy and slippery but...
What a day… Lovely winds and huge seas and a few other peoplke out windsurfing and kitesurfer here at Ynyslas on Saturday. All was going well, the adrenalin was flowing thanks to the big waves and I was having a really good windsurf session, until out the back my UJ snapped and my board went...
Just some photos taken at Ynyslas today… A lovely sunny, windy autumnal day in the dunes. The dunes looked really nice with the grass flowing in the wind and the sun shining on them so I thought I take a few photos and share them with you here.
I’ve been ‘back into’ mountain-biking for about a year now. My blog post when I bought the new bike ended by saying: I haven’t been on a bike for about 12 years and probably haven’t ridden one in anger for about 15, so it will no doubt be a shock to the system, but the...
Another weekend has gone and as usual we manged to keep ourselves amused here in West Wales. Saturday morning was spent doing chores and then collecting firewood on the beach. The wind picked up in the afternoon and Steve arrived so I headed off to the beach with him and went windsurfing in fairly standard...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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