View from the Potting Shed

In many pubs and cinemas around town you can pick up free promo postcards for all sorts of things: films, alcohol, the armed services, clothing, etc. Months and months ago I picked up a handfull of postcards at Bar 38 on George Street, including one from clothing manufacturer H&M. This Christmas I doctored […]

Professor Dick Henry at John Hopkins University in the US has proposed a new, revised calendar that would mean that every date falls on the same day of the week each year.
So, for example, my birthday (11 November) would always fall on a Friday, year after year after year, and Christmas Day (25 December, just […]

Comments are back on now. I’ve added a new anti-spam trap. This requires users to preview their comments before they are posted. Seemingly this trips-up a number of automated spam scripts. I can only try.
I know that the preview page looks nothing like the rest of the site, but I’ll change […]

For my birthday last month my brother- and sister-in-law, Paul and Pauline, gave me a Paint Your Own Mug kit. After I finished writing my sermon yesterday evening I decided to give it a go.
Hmm… what to put on it. Well, there really could only be one possible contender: Mozilla Firefox. So […]

Today, I rearranged my desk. That’s just how exciting today was!
Actually, I put up my old TV wall bracket. Twice.
We found the bracket in the garage in our house in Inverness, and since nobody had claimed it within six months — and it was too small to balance the car on in the […]

Jane’s radio-alarm woke me up around 3:45am this morning. Radio 1’s early-morning film-review show was on. Within a few seconds Jane reached over and blearily hit the snooze button. “I was listening to that!” I protested. Jane laughed and ignored me.
My radio-alarm kicked into life around fifteen minutes later. And […]

I’m going to stop promising which will be the last scene I post today. This one was mine:
LEIA: (softly) Dantooine.
[Leia lowers her head.]
LEIA: They’re on Dantooine.
TARKIN: There. You see Lord Vader, she can be reasonable. (addressing Motti) Continue with the operation. You may fire when ready.
LEIA: What?
TARKIN: You’re far too trusting. Dantooine is too […]