View from the Potting Shed

Back to Cellardyke this afternoon to meet a kind man from Scottish Gas, who priced a new boiler for us (nearly £3,000 inc VAT) while Jane and I tackled our snag list of bits and pieces left to do on the house. I went crazy with a tube of Polyfilla, while Jane began glossing […]

Waking up to the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 can sometimes be an upsetting business. I woke up suddenly this morning gripped with what felt like fear and with tears in my eyes. Could I have heard the news correctly: that comedian Jeremy Hardy had died, having drowned in the […]

My friend James pointed me to this website again. I remember discovering it a couple of years ago, but forgot to bookmark it.
The IRC Bible tells stories from the good book as though they were in an internet chat room. Here’s an example from Epiphany:

* Wiseman1 has joined #Jerusalem
* Wiseman2 has joined #Jerusalem
* Wiseman3 […]

Today is my day off. I spent much of it trying to fix a problem that has been randomly plaguing my PC for months: occasionally — and more often than not — while playing multimedia files (MP3s, DVDs, etc) my PC makes popping and crackling noises whenever I type. Which is more than […]

Is it just me, or are there now an inordinate number of road works springing up all across town; the disruption to traffic these last couple of weeks has been considerable. And we have a postal vote about congestion charges next week. Could these be, in any way, connected, or am I just […]

Yesterday I presided at the eucharist at St Salvador’s, and later took communion to two members of the congregation. The gospel reading I used at each service was that set for Tuesday of the first week of Lent (for that is what it was): Matthew 6: 7-15, which includes Jesus teaching his disciples what […]

Each morning BBC Radio 4 broadcasts a “Thought for the day”. The best one I’ve heard yet was by member of the Iona Community, John Bell, broadcast on 23 December 2004.