Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
As well as feeding the birds in this cold weather, the lack of internet access has meant that i’ve actually had some time to sit there and watch them as well. It may be cold and wintry out there but there are still plenty of birds around. In about an hour we saw the follwoing...
For those of you who aren’t bored with my GoPro HD video footage, here’s the video from yesterday’s windsurf session.
Just got back from driving around here and there, doing a few geocaches and such like and Ynyslas seems to be the place with the most snow around here. Odd that as being next to the sea it is usually the place with the least snow, but not this time. Delivery drivers have been saying...
It’s not even December yet but we seem to be in a pretty deep cold spell at the moment. I’ve just been checking the stats from the Borth Weather Station in my back garden and it is currently -5.8ºC here. I know it will probably be colder elsewhere as being so close to the sea...
Well, I think that windsurf session this morning may have been my last chance to hit 40 knots before I’m 40 in a few weeks time. There may be another chance but it hasn’t quite come together yet. I had a nice early start as Ivor, our local katabatic wind was in full force, so...
The conditions this morning looked awesome for windsurfing. A rare strong SE wind and some decent waves to give us 30 knots of cross-offshore winds and super clean, head high waves to play on. Perfect for down-the-line wave sailing and not conditions we normally get here as it’s usually cross-onshore so the waves are never...
I think I need some new running routes. The ones I do are OK and doing the same route now and then to gauge your progress (or lack of as the case might be) is always a good thing, but doing the same route all the time is not only a little boring, but hard...
Well, we knew it was coming but when it blows properly it blows! The wind here started at around 3am, then eased off a little this morning before picking up properly to 40-50 knots at around 10am. The exact time we had planned to go out windsurfing. Normally that would be a good thing, but...
Yes, another night and another bonfire party and fireworks display, that seems to be all we’ve done lately. Last night was the turn of the annual party at Dave and Sarah’s, our next door neighbours. As per usual it was full of their friends, most of whom are from Borth and Ynyslas and most of...
I’ve just got back from an excellent windsurf session here at Ynyslas. I wandered over to the beach and it didn’t lok great, grey, not that windy and not much in the way of waves either. I rigged my bigger sail, a 5.6m Gun Nexus and decided to give it a go with my Naish...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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