Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
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...
A friend of mine (Jon) is doing a PhD. in the Sports and Exercise Science Department at Aberystwyth University and was looking for lab rats. Being a glutton for punishment I of course agreed to help out and have now become a participant in his study. He is researching ‘Supine exercise and the power-duration relationship’...
What a perfect day.. Summer’s here so I was awake as soon as it got light just after 4am! I got up at 4.30am and did a few hours work on various website projects for Pixelwave Web Design, and then as everyone else stirred at around 7am I stopped for breakfast and got ready to...
MBR are doing a report on the trails around Machynlleth for an upcoming issue so were out riding at ClimachX yesterday. They’ve posted a video of it so here’s the video of ‘Andy and Roo from MBR riding the Cli-Machx trail at Machynlleth, North Wales on a rainy day in May’. Cli-Machx Trail – Machynlleth...
I know it makes a change, but we’ve just had a lovely sunny bank Holiday weekend… One to make a note of as it usually rains on bank holidays! What’s more, we had visitors and had the day off so managed to enjoy the weather as well. My parents arrived early Sunday afternoon, with my...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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