Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Well, I’ve spent most of Father’s Day either up a pole or down a hole. I did go for a lovely open water swim in the sea first, but then it was all work in the garden. Up a Pole I was up the pole in order to replace the anemometer on the Borth and...
Despite the soggy weather and the fact that the lurgy had me feeling well and truly under it, Anna and I managed to get a bit of work done in the garden on Saturday morning before rain stopped play. The rain eased off by the evening but it was still pretty soggy out there, so here...
The weather has changed and Summer is here – for the time being at least.
It looks as though pollution has made it to Aberystwyth. It was fine yesterday but it’s looking pretty murky out there today. It could just be a sea mist of course but we were expecting the smog caused by pollution that has been affecting other parts of the country to make it to West Wales...
The forecast was correct and we did indeed beat our previous record wind gust here on Wednesday. The forecasting site that I use and that has always been the most accurate for me is WindGuru and it was forecasting that the wind would start really building at 1:30pm on Wednesday and peak at a maximum at...
Well, that was exciting. I’m sorry for the lack of updates on the severe weather warning post on Wednesday evening, but not long after my post about the troubles Anna was having getting to the school to collect Morgan the power went off so I had no way of updating things online. I had just...
The Met office have upgraded the weather warning for Ceredigion to ‘Red’ – The highest level for severe weather warnings which means there is a risk to life and that people in the affected areas should ‘Take Action” During this afternoon a swathe of exceptionally strong winds is expected to affect western parts of Wales...
I don’t think anyone would deny that we’ve had a fairly awful winter so far this year. It hasn’t been cold yet, but it’s just been wet, windy and miserable. There does seem to be hope on the horizon though. There’s a brief respite in the stormy weather today, the wind has gone and it isn’t raining at...
After the recent storms and flood damage everywhere, we’ve been wondering how our bees have been faring. It has been a funny ‘winter’ so far as it has just been really mild and really wet. The bottom of the garden, where our beehives are is still waterlogged and flooded, but with wellies on I can...
I’ve posted plenty here about the storm damage in Ynyslas and the storm damage in Aberystwyth. However, as the road from here to Borth remains closed we haven’t really had much chance to get into Borth, other then once when I ran through Borth without a camera. So, here’s a little YouTube slide-show of some...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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