View from the Potting Shed

Posterized photograph of my brother Eddie and nephew Benjamin, created using The Rasterbator.
Today is my brother Edmund’s 31st birthday. Happy Birthday Eddie!

Those fine people at WordPress have done it again. The latest version of the popular blogging / Content Management System software is out now: WordPress 2.0.1, and not only have they fixed 114 bugs, but they’ve also been listening to the user feedback about WP 2.0, which went live one month ago.
One of my […]

How cold was it today?! -7° Celsius, that’s how cold it was first thing this morning! That’s a photo (above) of the temperature readout on the Vauxhall Astra just before I headed off for an 8 o’clock team meeting today.
Last night, driving back from the Soulfly gig, through the freezing fog — where […]

Soulfly live in concert at Glasgow Garage this evening.
Soulfly rocked in Glasgow this evening, at the Garage; although they really deserved a much larger venue and a larger stage.
The support band Skindred were surprisingly good. Their guitarist was the spitting image of Danny Wallace; at least from a distance. I sent him a text […]

A few years ago I joined The Alban Institute, an organisation that describes itself as
an ecumenical, interfaith organization founded in 1974, which supports congregations through book publishing, educational seminars, consulting services, and research
and on the whole they are a very good organisation that offers a lot of thoughtful research and thinking about all aspects of […]

Self-portrait of Gareth with Owen. Twice.
Yesterday I travelled down to Selkirk for my Mum’s cousin Jasmine’s 75th birthday. It was a great family event, attended by a great family. I do love our family get-togethers: there is usually a lot of laughter.
As a surprise my brother Eddie and his wife Rebecca and […]

What we didn’t see this evening!
Hey, churchy people of the internet! Have you ever wondered what unchurchy people do on a Sunday evening who don’t have to sit in a cold building on a hard pew and listen to 1929-style Choral Evensong? Jane and I did some research this evening and found out. […]