Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
That seems to be all we have had lately. Autumn is definately here and winter is just around the corner. It’s that time of year when this part of the world seems to have closed down. The shops that appear in Borth over the summer have gone without a trace, the windows on the sea-side...
Since Feb 2005 I have been experimenting with making a little income from websites. Not by working on them and building them for people which is one of my ‘proper’ sources of income, but by actually building sites for myself that then generate an income. Now, before you get excited, I’m not making loads, in...
…the 5th of November… To be honest I almost forgot it was Bonfire Night tonight. Well, it is excusable seeing as we had the community bonfire party last weekend to make the most of people being around at the end of half term. There will of course be a firework display in Borth tonight, but...
‘Trick or Treat?’, I wonder how many websites and blog entries have that title today? Well it is Halloween so I thought I’d be topical too, but what is it all about? Why do we celebrate Halloween? Why do we dress up in ghoulish costumes and carve out pumpkins? Why do we play ‘trick or...
OK, so we are officially out of Britsih Summer Time, but what a weekend… Gorgeous sunshine for most of the day today, warm temperatures and even bikini-clad girls on the beach and swimming in the water. We don’t get manye days better than that here in Wales during August!! It was pretty busy out on...
Last night we travelled all of about 10 metres to the now annual bonfire party at our next door neighbours. Now that they live here full time and are not just weekend visitors, the bonfire party seems to be growing in stature with more and more members of the local community coming together for an...
Here we go again, time to leave BST behind us and revert to Greenwich Meantime… To me it all seems a bit silly Greenwich Meantime (GMT) is the way things ‘should’ be but in the spring we have to put our clock forward by one hour in order to enter Bristish Summertime (BST) as part...
It isn’t very often that there is any showbiz news emanating from the Aberystwyth area. We do have a few famous people living around here, but most have come here to get away from the limelight and therefore tend not to generate any news stories. However, the front page of yesterdays Cambrian News ran with...
As Al mentioned the other day we have been living in Mid Wales for a few years now and do see ourselves as locals, especially now we have someone Welsh in the family (Morgan!). It can be difficult to integrate into close-knit rural societies and often the advice is ‘get a dog’ (especially where we...
If there’s one thing that everyone knows about Wales, it is that we get more than our fair share of weather. Indeed, today we have had gorgeous sunshine, torrential downpours, light winds, gales force winds and probably a few other bits and pieces of weather too. This may well explain our fascination for the weather,...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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