Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I’m sure I must have mentioned it here at some point, but Morgan is currently in Japan. After spending the best part of a year in Canada — working in the kitchens at a ski resort in Banff and then heading out to Vancouver Island — he came home for a year, and has now...
It’s been a big week or so in our household. We’ve dropped Morgan off in Manchester as he sets off on another adventure — this time to Japan. He’ll be spending four weeks in Tokyo before heading up to a ski resort on Hokkaido for the winter, working and exploring as he goes. It doesn’t...
Morgan has been keeping in touch all the way from Canada and he seems to be having fun. His job at the ski resort has ended now that the winter is over and he has managed to get a summer job as a BBQ chef at a golf course. Typically, he was living in just...
We convinced Morgan to get off his computer one sunny day in the holidays. With his friends James they were banished to the garden to take some optical illusion photos. They had a good time out there once they were actually out in the real world. Here are some of their photos.
Morgan decided it was time for a haircut. So, while we were at my parents at the weekend, Kia my niece cut his hair for him. He doesn’t do things by halves – talk about drastic! Quite a transformation I think you’ll agree! I guess it should be easier to look after, but will need...
Whilst I was out on Sunday at the Carmarthen Showground Cyclo-cross event, Morgan and his friend James decided to do some bottle flipping. It’s one of those crazes that seems to be sweeping the nation and as a pre-teen Morgan of course jumps onto every one of them. They made a few YouTube videos of...
Once again this year Morgan was selected to represent his school in the Aberystwyth District Cross Country Championships. That is despite doing no training whatsoever, something that we will nave to address as he could do quite well if he just did one or two runs beforehand to remind himself of how to pace etc....
Hot on the heels of Sports Day at school, the next day after school we headed out for the Ras yr Hafod at Hafod Estate. This was an adult 10k race along with several kids races. Morgan wanted to do it, but not alone so roped his friend Cameron into it as well. None of them...
Anna and I had the afternoon off on Friday in order to support Morgan at the Ceredigion Urdd Cross Country Championships. He qualified for these last year at the Aberystwyth Area Championships where he placed 9th. This would of course be a different level as everyone here had qualified and Morgan had only just got in...
Morgan’s class all came out of school cradling little surprises for us the other day wrapped in tissue paper. When we opened it this is what we found. Don’t worry, it isn’t what you think! Apparently they had been working on clay modelling and sculpturing during the day and the topic was ‘something from nature’....
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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