View from the Potting Shed

(Photograph from stock.xchng.)
Quickly, before I go to bed, I thought I’d share with you the rule. The rule is, while watching a film (or if you prefer, a ‘movie’), if anyone in the film says the name of the film you have to cheer. It doesn’t have to be a loud cheer (if […]

Split-screen view in the excellent WeBuilder 2006 editor.
While Jane disappeared to what she referred to as the disappointing Long Tall Sally sale I spent a couple of hours playing around with CSS menus trying to get to grips with every aspect of them: how to indent them, adjust the height, centring them, controlling the width, […]

Aftermath of the cheese fondue this evening.
Today has felt like a gentle and satisfying day. Having finally got to sleep around 3am because of coughing, I was up just after 9am when Jane also awoke.
After a leisurely breakfast, that spanned a couple of hours, we tidied the worst bits of the house, and I […]

The new WordPress website design.
The wait is over: WordPress 2.0 has finally been released. While externally it doesn’t look as though anything has changed an awful lot has been changed behind the scenes. Asymptomatic has blogged about What’s New in WordPress 2.0, and it makes for some impressive reading.
Not content with simply tampering with […]

I didn’t have any photographs of number blocks only, so these will have to do.
This year Jane and I decided that our Christmas present to one another would be a new mattress for our bed. Our current one we’ve had since we got married in July 1999 and it’s pretty uncomfortable now. I’m […]

Jane and I are just back from an overnight visit to the Scottish Borders, where we spent a lovely Christmas Day (from about 14:00 onwards) at my Mum’s in Selkirk. Today we drove over to Galashiels to visit Mum’s cousin for our annual family get-together (the Saunders’, Brodies, Brydons and Auntie Jasmine). Good […]

Nativity scene beneath the altar at St Salvador’s, Stenhouse
May the Father,
who has loved the eternal Son
from the foundation of the world,
shed that love upon you his children.
May Christ,
who by his incarnation gathered into one
things earthly and heavenly
fill you with joy and peace,
May the Holy Spirit,
by whose overshadowing Mary became God-bearer,
give you grace to carry the […]