Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
The recreation ranger from the Forestry Commission has given me permission to hide some new geocaches so I’ve hidden them and published the cache logs at geocaching.com. They form the Watery Wales series which is a series of caches on the banks of lakes and streams in the Welsh Hills. Most are pretty easy to...
Well, it looks like we will definately be going now. I’ve booked a B&B on Arran for 2 nights and a cottage for us all in Port Charlotte on Islay. Mingulay B&B looks nice and friendly and I’m sure we’ll update you when we come back. The cottage on Islay looks perfect for what we...
It never rains it pours… First I had a big swim last week after snapping a mast and had to ditch my boom at sea to get back in. On Saturday Steve trashed a sail whilst windsurfing at Borth and today my mast extension snapped leaving me with yet another big swim back to the...
It’s time we planned a family holiday. We were thinking of going to Spain and staying at a friends villa in Estepona. I built the website for the villa so would get a little discount on the cost of staying there. but for some reason Spain never really got us that excited. Of course it...
The rumours were there, we all new that there would be an Apple Phone released sometime soon and the MacWorld expo sems the obvious place for the announcement. We also had ideas about a touch screen full screen video iPod. So the full screen video iPod phone (or iPhone as it is called) wasn’t that...
As usual when I get a little project into my head I go a little OTT. If you hadn’t noticed my ‘project’ lately has been geocaching. Every chance I get I’m either looking up caches on geocaching.com or out there in the hills searching for little plastic boxes or chasing that FTF (First to Find)!...
The weather hasn’t been great and we had planned day out as a family along with Dave and Sarah from next door geocaching in the Welsh Hills on Saturday. Saturday dawned particularly wet, but if you don’t do anything around here because it is raining nothing would ever get done so we set off anyway....
Why oh why do these things always happen when miles from the shore on a cold winter day with no-one around? Ok, so maybe I shouldn’t go windsurfing on my own in such conditions, but the wind was a perfect 25-30 knots (Force 6-7) the sea looked like fun with some decent waves to play...
The days are getting longer and the first signs of Spring are here… We have some daffodil and Bluebell shoots in our front garden… I wonder what sort of a display they will provide this spring?
Christmas is over and the New Year is here… HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! The last few days of the holiday were pretty wild here. Winds gusting to 54 knots and some mad mad storms, rain, hail, thunder, lightning, you name it we have had it. Steve came to visit on Saturday and we had planned...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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