Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
We’ve just got back from a busy weekend. We drove to my parents house in South Gloucestershire on Friday evening. Saturday was then spent first taking my car to a garage in Dursley. Mitsubishi had recalled all cars like mine to have a part exchanged so as they were doing it for free in it...
I noticed a new geocache hidden by Tortoiseshell appear about 5 miles from here yesterday morning. I was due to virtually drive past it later in the day so I left home a little earlier than needed and went out on an FTF (First to Find) mission. It was a gorgeous day, the best so...
It’s always nice to see the number of bird species we get in the garden increase and the latest addition to the list is the Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus). At least, I’m pretty sure they are Willow Warblers. There was a little family of them eating insect from various plants in the garden. A little...
All gardens have a unique set of parameters that will determine whether or not a particular plant will thrive, merely survive or perish. Most of these, such as the amount of sunlight, soil type and drainage are fairly obvious and well documented. Other equally important parameters include the amount of time, energy and money you...
Believe it or not, our sleepy seaside town of Borth is home to a music festival. Complete with 6 stages, 60 bands and up to 3000 people. If that many people do attend, than could more than triple the population for a day or two. The Square Festival as its known is on the 26th...
I keep saying that it is all too easy to take what you have around you for granted and not make the most of it. So, to make sure didn’t fall into this trap we joined the holiday-makers and had a nice day out at the beach last weekend. Actually we beat them to it...
As regular readers will know we have been having a pragmatic approach to saving some electricity recently. We’re still using the electricity monitor and have been keeping the usage down which is good. It is summer of course so we shouldn’t be using much anyway, but hopefully come winter we’ll be careful with our energy...
Our final stop of the day on our anniversary was The Frame House in Borth. Instead of buying each other anniversary cards and presents we had decided to treat ourselves to a nice picture for the wall. We didn’t really know what we wanted so we stopped off to have a look for something suitable....
Continuing our anniversary day out we headed off to Llanerchaeron House near Aberaeron. This is a National Trust property so it isn’t cheap to get in but we decided that it was our anniversary so we may as well treat ourselves and have a look round, especially seeing as I’m into gardens at the moment...
It was our wedding anniversary on Thursday so although we felt a little guilty about it we sent Morgan off to nursery as usual and had a day out together. Typically I had come down with the dreaded lurgy the night before so wasn’t feeling great and the weather didn’t look too good to start...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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