Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
We made the annual visit to just north of Bristol at the weekend in order to meet my side of the family for the pre-Christmas gathering. It was my Mum’s birthday on the Saturday as well so we were there to celebrate that as well as meet up with everyone and exchange Christmas gifts. Anna, Morgan...
I had fun baking our Christmas cake over the weekend. As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, I think I’m going to make this a Cole Family tradition, we’ll have big roast dinner on Thanksgiving weekend and bake a cake ready for Christmas. It wasn’t quite a proper relaxing weekend in true holiday style but...
We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving here in the UK, in fact, until recently we hadn’t really heard of it, and I had to look it up in Wikipedia to see what exactly the Americans were celebrating. Apparently it’s “A holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada as a day of giving thanks for the...
I do love Christmas – It may be a little stressful in the run up, but the lights, the parties and the anticipation help to ease the stress. Morgan starts to get excited, Santa’s on his way and its time to enjoy some time as a family. I even sit down and watch some films...
It had to happen – I gained some weight on Christmas day! My weight has been up and down a bit lately anyway. Before my big race of the year in New Zealand I was down to about 62kg and feeling trim, but whilst on holiday after the race I went a bit mad for...
Another night and yet another Christmas meal, a curry this time in the Taj Mahal in Machynlleth with the Cerist Triathlon Club. I’m not actually a member of the club but I do know lots of them and train with them on a Sunday morning so decided to head along to their Xmas dinner. The...
Keeping the Christmas spirit, here’s a photo of Morgan in Santas Grotto last week.
Just to keep us in the Christmas spirit here’s a photo of our Christmassy light shade. Pretty hey!
The Christmas festivities continue here. We’ve already had a birthday meal for my Mum’s 60th last week and a Christmas Carvery with my family. Last night we had a another celebratory meal, this time with the Aberystwyth Beekeepers Association. It was also my birthday yesterday so it doubled as a birthday meal as well. We...
The lights are up, so here’s the obligatory shot of the tree… Xmas is coming!!!
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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