Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Following a busy start to the weekend, we enjoyed a more relaxed Sunday and Monday. We’d been invited to Sophie’s 50th birthday party (she’s the wife of Alan’s friend Dennis—and has therefore been a friend of ours for a while too!). The party was being held at Mwnt, just over an hour down the coast...
Who would believe it? Anna, 40 years old already. We did of course tease her suitably about this landmark age, but not too much seeing as many of us are already way past this age! We also marked the day with something of a party. Party preparations I’d been working on the garden in the sunshine for...
As Morgan’s birthday fell on a school day this year, we had his party at the weekend. He had decided he wanted to do laser tag in the woods so we were all booked up for 2pm on Saturday. Everything was planned and Morgan and 10 friends would meet in the woods ready to run...
That was quite a weekend! Dominated by our 10th Wedding Anniversary celebrations. We decided ages ago that we’d like to have a bit of a party for our 10th anniversary and get people together so that we’d remember it. You know how these things are, a simple barbeque in the back garden was planned, nothing...
Phew, we have been busy! It was our 10th wedding anniversary the other day so we’re throwing a bit of a garden party. Guests have been invited and many are coming from far afield so we though we should make an effort as well. I’ve been working on the garden for weeks in preparation for...
With the racing over it was now time to relax. These international triathlon events are brilliant and take me to places I might not otherwise have gone, but in the run up to the race there isn’t much time for anything other than race preparation, race panicking and race nerves, so it’s nice to have...
It was one of Morgan’s best friends birthday parties at the weekend. Kids birthday parties here seem to be fairly active affairs. The main options seem to be a swimming party, a ‘soft-play’ party, a cinema party or a climbing wall party. This one was at the climbing wall at the University followed by a...
A house full of rowdy, over-excited 6 year olds? No thanks, we’re not that silly! It was Morgan’s birthday last week, during half term so we waited until this week to have his party and decided to let the good people at Play Planet in Llandre organise most of it for us. Play Planet is...
Well, I’m now 40 years old and have just got back from a great weekend away in North Wales to celebrate the fact that I’ve made it to this milestone (relatively) unscathed. We drove up on Friday afternoon with Dave and Sarah following behind us, stopped off at Treetop Adventure in betws y Coed to...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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