View from the Potting Shed

Back to the house this afternoon to await the return of a Scottish Gas engineer to replace the jet for the pilot light. It needed replaced and rather than risk the house freezing should the weather turn nasty in the near future (would it do that? I’m not so sure!) I decided to […]

Only a few days now until Deep Impact 2005 in Aviemore and the scene in the Saunders’ household is much the same as prior to the previous two Deep Impact weekends, in 2000 and 2002: one of controlled panic and frantic session writing.
Believe it or not, I’ve never used Powerpoint before. My old PC, […]

An early start this morning as I drove over to Cellardyke for 08:00. Not early enough, and I’d forgotten that the car needed more petrol as I cranked the engine and the Feed Me Fuel light glowed a smug hue of yellow in the darkness of this Edinburgh morning; I arrived around 08:30.
I know […]

Here’s something I found on Psion-champion Ewan Spence’s blog, which was inspired by Feet up!.
1. Open up the music player on your computer.
2. Set it to play your entire music collection.
3. Hit the “shuffle” command.
4. Tell us the title of the next ten songs that show up (with their musicians), no matter how embarrassing.
Here […]

The details of the recent Indian Ocean earthquake and the resulting aftershocks and tsunami can be read about at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia.
Some of the details are astounding, with regards the sheer power of the earthquake. For example:
The shift of mass and the massive release of energy very slightly altered the Earth’s rotation. […]

I’ve been tidying up my study this evening and I discovered the A4 poster for the 1982-83 IEE Faraday Lecture that my dad, Keith J. Saunders lectured, called The Photon Connection.

It was while doing the Faraday Lecture that Dad collapsed with a brain haemorrhage, on the Ides of March, 15 March 1983. Apparently, he […]

Blimey, we’re exhausted! Today was our third visit to the house in Cellardyke this week, and it was really beginning to show in our energy levels. Having already visited Tesco, the local Civic Amenities Site (the dump!), WH Smith at the Gyle (shopping centre) and B&Q (affectionately known in our house as “Bob […]