View from the Potting Shed

Today has been a lazy day, and an enjoyable day. Nothing to rush about. I’m on holiday. I finished reading Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure this morning and am now ploughing my way through cousin Robert’s novel Boonville, in between a couple of writing projects, a visit to Char’s neighbour, BJ, to check out some software […]

Sunday was a good day. I followed the great deity’s example and on the seventh day rested from updating my blog.
In the morning I went to church: St Paul’s, Healdsburg. A small, wooden Episcopal Church. I should rephrase that: an Episcopal Church congregation housed in a small, wooden building. I’ve been there before; a couple […]

Boonville is a town situated in Mendocino County, about an hour north of Healdsburg (where I am currently based, seventy miles north of San Francisco). The reason I mention it is because this morning Char and I drove up there to visit our Anderson cousins, in the appropriately — and coincidentally-named — Anderson Valley. Bruce […]

Today was a leisurely day. I woke at 06:30 and finished reading “Eats, Shoots & Leaves” (required reading for linguistic pedants, like myself) and pottered around for a couple of hours, chatting to Char, before replacing the CMOS battery in her PC and troubleshooting her (SCSI) scanner. (I thought I was on holiday!)
This afternoon we […]

What a long day! It felt like a day and a half, what with us having to wind our watches back 8 hours when we landed at San Francisco International Airport and effectively re-live the hours between five pm and midnight, albeit not strapped into a British Airways seat.
The trip from Edinburgh to London was […]

So there I was hunting out our passports when I noticed a folder entitled ‘Travel Insurance’. How could I forget to take out travel insurance?! Thankfully we have an understanding bank (The Royal Bank of Scotland) who work at supersonic speeds.
00:44 and we’re still packing. Bed now, and up early methinks…

In a couple of days (Thursday 15 January 2004) Jane, her Mum, Dorothy, and I will be winging our way towards San Francisco on holiday.
Friday 16 - Thursday 22 January
Jane and Dorothy are attending an Enneagram Course (in Menlo Park, near Palo Alto) to train to be Enneagram tutors. Meanwhile I’ll be relaxing in Healdsburg […]