View from the Potting Shed

This is one amazing video. It is of guitarist Justin King playing both necks of a double-necked acoustic guitar simultaneously, using a combination of hammer-ons, pull-offs and strumming, as well as a couple of percussive knocks on wood.

“Knock On Wood (live)” (QuickTime, 7.1 MB)

I have a cold.
It’s incredible just how much that small fact — four words — has dominated my last few days. My worldview has shrunk down and my focus is very much on myself, and on getting better. I can’t think much beyond that. This afternoon I pushed myself on and edited […]

One of the things I would have loved to have learned from my Dad — had he not had a triple brain-haemorrhage in 1983 and gone off to live on Planet Mental for 15 years — is car maintenance.

Jane and I spent a romantic evening in working out rental prices for our holiday cottage at Cellardyke.
I need to finalize the brochure, price list and website (www.eastneukholidaycottage.co.uk). Then the booking diary, booking forms, and database. Not much, then.

What are we to make of this rather odd story in our book of scriptures? Of a man — a prophet? — who has toured, and taught and healed for three years; who is arrested and in a rather biased and rushed trial is condemnded to a brutal, criminal’s death on a cross; who three days later is witnessed to be alive and journeys with two disciples to Emmaus, explaining the scriptures to them, opening their eyes more fully to God’s work in the world; and now he ascends into the clouds, launches into the air and disappears in front of their very eyes, like a first-century Superman crossed with magician David Copperfield. What are we to make of these extraordinary events? What possible connection can there be made between this remarkable Galilean who walked the earth 2,000 years ago, and our faith today? What can the Ascension say to us as we struggle to be faithful to God in every aspect of lives in Scotland in 2005?

Lego® Star Wars: The Video Game
What more do I have to say? As a child, I spent more hours than I could possibly imagine playing with Lego, Star Wars figures, and my trusty old computer, then a Commodore 64. Now someone has had the pleasant idea of stitching these three items together to […]

The last couple of days I’ve been aware that I’ve not posted terribly much to my blog. I’ve spent any spare moment working on the never-ending rewrite of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain website.
I’ve been using the first-class blogging/content management system application WordPress 1.5 (Strayhorn) to build the site around. It […]