Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Although living in a rural location, there is little tree cover nearby and therefore the variety of birds we get in the garden is fairly limited. Over the last few weeks we have had some new visitors though in the form of a pair of Linnets. These small finches are partial migrants to the UK...
I’ve just got back from a weekend in Pembrokeshire. Dennis, a friend from Bristol is getting married in a few weeks time so it was a stag weekend with a difference. Nothing too ‘stag-like’ about it in fact and Dennis didn’t even want to call it a stag weekend, just a weekend away before the...
We have recently been having a clear out and plan to finally get around to sorting out Morgan’s bedroom. He’s getting too big for his toddler bed and needs some proper storage where he can put all of his toys, and believe me there are lots that need a proper home. I have been a...
It was Sol’s(climbing in the adjacent photo) birthday at the weekend and Morgan was invited to his party at the climbing wall in Aberystwyth. We had never been to it before and although fairly small (I’d call it a bouldering wall) it was nice in there and Morgan seemed to enjoy it. Morgan never really...
OK, OK, don’t get too excited you won’t be seeing us on the TV! After our recent trip to the Isle of Man I was contacted by someone at the BBC on the island to write a little article about our experiences geocaching on the Isle of Man. I did, and it is now live...
We got an energy monitor earlier this week and it has made fairly interesting reading. We’ve never been frivolous with our energy usage and do generally switch off lights when they aren’t in use (although I’m better at that than Anna), and don’t leave the TV on standby etc. but having the monitor has made...
Phew, I’ve just climbed down from the telegraph pole after repairing the Borth and Ynyslas Weather Station. A few days ago the humidity sensor failed and was produing a 100% humidity reading despite the fact that this obviously wasn’t the case. A qucik e-mail to McMurdo who are the UK distributors of Davis Instruments weather...
I thought I’d give my Dad (who is something of a master carpenter) something to inspect, and no doubt laugh at, next time he visits us in Wales. So, yesterday afternoon was spent building a pergola in the garden. We had plenty of wood left over from the construction of our timber deck so out...
We’ve just had another action packed weekend here in rural mid Wales. Thanks to our local katabatic wind I managed to windsurf every day last week and although the wind wasn’t forecast to be great for the weekend, Ivor kept blowing and I managed to windsurf on Saturday and Sunday morning in the estuary at...
Hows this for an interesting walk??? Not sure I could do it!
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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