Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I know my last post was all about the fact that the bees are in the midst of a honey flow. However, despite the flowers galore in the garden they seem to be going elsewhere for their forage. I’m not complaining of course, I don’t mind where they get it from if they are doing...
I don’t know, I turn my back for 5 minutes and the bees are up to something again!! This time I think it’s a good thing as they have filled their supers to the brim!! I’m not sure where they are getting their forage from but there seems to be a honey flow! The garden...
What a weekend to pick for a paddling trip to North Wales. Wall to wall sunshine, temperatures in the mid to high 20’s and a good group of people to share it with. Camping at it’s finest! I’d had a chest infection for a couple of weeks so had been coughing like mad. I had...
I know we went out to Libanus the other day for Sunday lunch to celebrate our wedding anniversary, but that was a bit of a last minute thing. We had already booked onto the ‘Estate Dinner’ at Nanteos as well. So, that’s where we were on Wednesday evening! We hadn’t been to Nanteos Mansion for...
Unsuccessful Swarming We never have much success with our bees during swarming season. As soon as there are signs of swarming we tend to do the standard artificial swarm procedure. This is supposed to ‘trick’ the bees into thinking they have swarmed and you should end up with two colonies: One containing the original queen...
Just a quick update on ‘the solars’. As expected, both average daily production and total production from the solar panels has been increasing throughout the year. The graphs of these therefore look pretty good. There was quite a jump between February and March and then a gradual increase throughout March, April, May and June. We’re...
We usually have a day out for our anniversary but I had a chest infection this year so we didn’t. We did drive into Borth and have a little stroll through the village to Libanus where we had Sunday lunch though. Very nice it was too. We then strolled back and chilled at home. Not...
Well, typically, having had a nice long break planned with Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday off work, I’ve been unable to do much with it. My cold / chest infection has kept me out of action. No doubt it’ll be fine by Thursday and I’ll be able to go to work as usual...
I’m not doing too well with my mission to re-gain some fitness. I obviously lost loads of fitness after my heart attack but have been trying to regain at least some of it ever since. Recovery Initially I was unable to do anything other than some short walks. I’d been through quite a trauma. There...
Well, after ripping my 5.0m windsurf sail on Sunday I came home and just had to do a bit of Internet shopping! Who knew that brand new sails are in the £700-800 range these days. Oh well, I had to replace the 5.0m and you can’t beat a new sail day. Brexity issues I always...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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