View from the Potting Shed

Here’s an annoying thing: my Windows clock has started running fast. It completes a minute in only 52 seconds — I’ve timed it with my wristwatch stopwatch. I found a fix for this on Google Groups,
C:>net stop w32time
The Windows Time service is stopping.
The Windows Time service was stopped successfully.
C:>w32tm.exe /unregister
The following error […]

I received this in my e-mail last night in my weekly B3ta newsletter.
If you’re being chased by a police dog, try not to go through a tunnel, then on to a little seesaw, then jump through a hoop of fire. They’re trained for that.
I’ll bear that in mind, and I think you should too.

Okay, here’s another one from The Ashton Standard (Saturday, August 6 1859). It’s an advert:
TO BE LET, the House next door to Mrs JOHN LEES, in the Market-place, to whom application may be made.
My good friend James Frost thinks that this would make the basis of a good Little Britain sketch. Something along […]

A couple of months ago a lady kindly gave me an old family bible that had been in her family for years. The reason that I knew the woman, and presumably this led her to choose me to donate the bible to, was that I had conducted the funeral of her son, who had […]

Hmm… that’s weird. You probably already read that bit in the title of this post, but it’s true, it’s still weird. It’s now 11 minutes past midnight and I still don’t seem to have received my birthday e-mail from the Queen. Maybe her e-mail server is down, or there’s a back-log. Or […]

I picked up some old school jotters of mine when I was home visiting my Mum this weekend. Here’s something I wrote on 29 January 1981; I was in Primary 5:
I know some dangers in your home. If your pan goes on fire my mum has a metal tray to puton it and a […]

I’m still dumbstruck by the result of the recent US(eless) election; saddened and speechless! It’s not that I am a particularly strong fan of John Kerry, but I and all of Europe with me were desperate to see Bush dethroned from a presidency that he never won in the first place! The world […]