View from the Potting Shed

The Barium Enema and X-Ray went fine, though uncomfortable — particularly when they injected the air to blow up my colon like a balloon (no need to twist it into animal shapes, however!) and then ask me to writhe around on the table to allow gravity to get to work at coating my insides with […]

I’m now 22 hours into my fast, in preparation for the barium x-ray this afternoon.
I celebrated the Eucharist at St Salvador’s this morning, which was an interesting experience. Truly one of service as I was unable to eat bread or drink wine. I had to write myself a notice on an A6 […]

We’ve still heard nothing about when we might get the keys to the house we are buying in Fife. We were meant to close the deal on Friday 20 August, but there has been a delay with the sellers needing to tie up lose-ends with regards planning permission (or a building warrant, or […]

Tomorrow afternoon I have an appointment at the X-ray Department of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) for a ‘barium enema’ — yeah, that sounds just as exciting to me! Since yesterday (Sunday) I’ve been on a ‘low residue diet’, which essentially means that I can white bread… and not much else! I […]

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Last night I saw the Metallica film Some Kind of Monster with my friend Tirwin.
It was an inspiring, and at times quite moving, exploration into the relationships of these so-called ‘rock stars’. In a culture which puts stardom and fame almost above any other ambition, it was refreshing to witness the rawness and honesty […]

Well that took longer than I’d expected — mostly because I accidentally renamed a critical file before uploading it and couldn’t work out why nothing was changing on the site! — but I’ve now given the front-end of this blog a make-over to make it look like the rest of my site. More or […]