View from the Potting Shed

Each week my Mum sends me The Selkirk Weekend Advertiser through the post; a local newspaper that combined the long-running The Selkirk Advertiser with its upstart rival The Selkirk Weekender, and until relatively recently was still printed in Selkirk.
It’s great, it keeps me up to date with what’s going on in my hometown of Selkirk, […]

This year I’m involved in Powerpoint once again, playing guitar in the worship band. Powerpoint is a Christian youth event which was once-upon-a-time overseen by YFC and now has SU Scotland oversight. (Not sure why Powerpoint doesn’t have a website.)
We had a rehearsal last night which was perhaps the loudest rehearsal that I’ve ever […]

So, it’s five to four on Monday and in an ideal world Jane and I would be sunning it up on the Fife coast by now. But it’s not, and many of my blog posts are a tribute to that fact!, which is why we’re still at home and in the midst of packing.
I had […]

As of about 90 minutes ago I’m now officially on holiday! It is looking likely that this year I will, for the first time in my six years full-time ordained ministry, get my full entitlement of holidays. For the first three years I lost out on two weeks each year. That’s curacies […]

The news this morning took us completely by surprise. I’m still taking it in, to be honest.
We were at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh for our follow-up appointment with the fertility expert, to get the results of my two sperm tests and Jane’s laparoscopy, and to see where we go from here.
I’d previously blogged:
The […]

Just back from another sortie into the Scottish Borders, to wish my Uncle Lewis a happy birthday and to run some AntiVirus and AntiSpyware software on her PC, thanks to Blake’s comment earlier this week.
I ran both PC Tools’ Spyware Doctor and AdAware SE, but they both reported absolutely no spyware at all on Mum’s […]

It’s here. I’m off to Galashiels now to say happy birthday to Uncle Lewis. Will blog more later.
Ring me!