Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I spotted a couple of Skylarks in the garden this morning. We see quite a few around here and on sunny days in the summer can hear them singing constantly whilst in their distinction display flight. It’s good to see them because, although they are the UK’s commonest lark, in recent times the Skylark population...
Continuing my efforts to do some moth photography, aiming for more aesthetic photos rather than photos purely for identification and recording purposes, here are a couple of the more common Spring moths. It was a fairly chilly, breezy night last night so numbers in the trap were low. 3 x Shoulder Stripe 8 x Common...
The 2011 Pwllheli Triathlon takes place this Sunday (27th March) and I’ve signed up to do it. I did quite a few triathlons ‘in my youth’ and then was talked into doing the Wotton Triathlon for charity last year by my sister. I quite enjoyed doing it again so thought I’d start doing a few...
In order to cut down on hundreds of lorry loads of rock armour for the Borth Coastal Defence Scheme, a huge ship from Norway carrying 42,000 Tonnes of Rock Armour will arrive by sea (weather permitting) on the 23rd March and again around the 29th March 2011. I’ve heard that BAM Nuttal the main contractors of the...
We had a little walk along the beach on Sunday morning to check out progress on the sea defences. It was a grey day and the tide was farily high so we couldn’t really see much in the way of progress. The beach has been built out quite a way at the southern end of Borth...
After the success of Sunday nights Moth Trapping I thought I’d have another go on Monday. The skies were a little clearer so temperatures dropped to 5.7ºC but with light winds we still had quite a good haul: 1 x Mottled Grey 20 x Shoulder stripe 3 x Emmelina monodactyla 7 x Dotted Border 4 x...
I haven’t had the moth trap out much again lately, but after spending a weekend in the garden and even mowing the lawn, things looked good for a night of moth trapping so I put it out on Sunday evening. I checked on it a couple of times before going to bed and although conditions...
Here’s the other video from my Mountain Bike Ride at Llandegla on Sunday.
Anna and Morgan were away on the Isle of Man for the weekend and I had to collect them from Liverpool on Sunday afternoon which provided me with a perfect excuse for a mountain bike ride at Llandegla. I drove up in the morning on lovely clear roads in the sunshine. The drive itself was...
Morgan is doing well with his kite-flying now. It took him a couple of attempts and to start with he didn’t really persevere . His first couple of goes only lasted a couple of minutes each, but I didn’t want to force him to do it so just left it at that each time. He...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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