Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
For the first time in a long time Morgan went to bed early last night and stayed there! Suddenly I had a huge need for chocolate and Alan kindly offered to take his bike for a ride and go and get some……just an excuse to go out on his bike but I certainly wasn’t gong...
Here comes the main bank holiday weekend of the year and at last the summer has arrived. At the moment it is gorgeous outside, wall to wall sunshine, 20ºC and a nice cooling breeze. It looks as though we should have visitors for the weekend too… Well, almost as Jay, Jennie and their children, Meg,...
After working yesterday morning whilst it rained outside, it brightened up in the afternoon so I decided to go out for another ride on my new bike and explore some likely looking trails. I set off from home and cycled along the road to Tre’r Ddol and then found a bridle path that I wanted...
Sunday always looked as though it was going to be a little windy, so Impi and Steve had planned to visit Borth for some good old windsurfing in Wales. Steve arrived here around midnight on Saturday and the wind had already started building. By Sunday morning the Borth weather station was showing gusts of up...
Saturday was a miserable day here, grey and damp so we had a family outing to the supermarket and a naughty lunch at MacDonalds! By about 5pm the weather in Borth looked to have cleared a little. It was still grey, still a little damp but at least the rain had stopped, so as I...
I was ill last week and did very little work on Friday, but I did find the energy to pit my new bike together which arrived from Evans Cycles that afternoon. In fact there wasn’t much to do, the pedals needed fitting, the handlebars needed aligning and the headset tightened and I made a few...
As I’ve mentioned before I’ve become a bzzagent which involves trying out new products. One of the products I’ve been asked to try recently is Danone activia yoghurt. This youghurt comes in a variety of flavours and is widely available. The claim is that the special digestive bacteria help maintain a health digestive tract and...
We’ve just had another action packed weekend here in Wales. On Saturday Steve and I headed off to the Arenig hills for some geocaching while Anna looked after Morgan and took him to a birthday party in Aberystwyth. Steve and I met up in Bala and then headed North on a little road to the...
Summer is at last back with us, so we had another family day out in the welsh hills. We took a nice drive up towards and around Nant-y-Moch in glorious sunshine. The weather really doesn’t get much better here in Wales than it was on Sunday. we then dropped down into Ponterwyd and off towards...
As you may have already read, we had the first ever Ynyslas Fun Day here at the weekend. A low key affair, but you have to start somewhere. One of the events was a ‘Treasure Hunt’ arranged by Anna and myself, which we think went well Everyone set off with their instructions sheets, and had...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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