Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
We had the first ever Ynyslas Fun Day yesterday here. It is an idea we had been talking about for a while as Anna and I along with other ynyslas residents always felt that the Borth Carnival was really aimed at the tourists and wasn’t for the residents of Ynyslas and that we would like...
Its been an expensive week for me… At last the wind returned so I was able to get out windsurfing. Wednesday afternoon was lovely, I sailed all the way up to Tywyn, then back to Ynyslas and thought I’d continue on to Borth, but just as I thought that my boom snapped and I was...
Just a few photos of Morgan messing around with a pair of glasses.
Don’t you just hate having to keep turining your pillow over at night because it gets too hot? Anna never quite understood why I did this, but she found a product called a ‘chillow pillow’ and began to realise that maybe I wasn’t the only one who liked to have a cool head. She ordered...
Thought I’d post about our new cooker and the excellent service we got from Aber gas and Electrical Appliances in Aberystwyth. We looked elsewhere. Curry’s had one or two we liked the look (and price) of, but they were a little vague with the dimensions and fitting advice and the ones we could afford didn’t...
Call them what you like, blueberries, blaeberries, bilberries, it’s that time of year and on Saturday Morgan, me and Sarah from next door set off in search of a free tasty treat. Tradition on the Isle of Man is that you shouldn’t pick blueberries until after Tynwald Day (5th July) and I wasn’t sure if...
I recently joined a site which advertises products using word of mouth. They do this by sending samples, money off vouchers etc to member and ask them to let people know what they think. nowI have seen this sort of website before but it has never come to much, however I now have 3 different...
Sorry for the lack of posts here recently… It isn’t that we haven’t been doing anything worth writing about but more that we just haven’t had chance to blog. We have however been treating ourselves to a few meals out (and in) lately. It was our wedding anniversary earlier this month and our neighbours Dave...
Sunday dawned wet and miserable, but I decided that I shouldn’t let such weather put me off going for a walk so headed off to the Cadair Idris an an attempt to get First to Find on some geocaches. First stop was at Llyn Cau and by the time I got there I was drenched,...
Anna, Morgan and I had fun on Saturday at a reunion of some old geology students from Aberystwyth. It wasn’t students from our year but students from a couple of years behind us who we taught / demonstrated to and went on several field trips with. It was good to see them all, even if...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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