View from the Potting Shed

Left: Jerry Springer; Right: King of Fools
Is it just me or does the man on the cover of the album King of Fools by Christian rock band Delirious? look like King of Daytime TV fools Jerry Springer?

Seemingly, just by wearing that red fez I’ve instantly made my website better!
So, how did I end up with a photograph of me wearing a fez in a post that references the title of a book by an internet marketing expert? Simple. Follow me.
This evening I was reading Steve Lawson’s blog. Steve […]

Mozart t-shirt — in the style of the Metallica logo — from Glarkware.
Happy 250th birthday to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the original rock god!
I found this superb Metallica-style t-shirt at Glarkware, with the following blurb:
As far as we can tell from the historical record, the eighteenth century was sort of a fallow period as far as […]

This getting healthy lark is coming along nicely. That’s two days in a row now that I’ve cycled into town to meet up with Jane after work and cycle home with her.
I’m finding that I’m now beginning to get into the way of eating healthily and regularly. I’m still following the guidelines in […]

One of the entrances to the Royal Victoria Hospital.
Today I celebrated a Eucharist at St Ninian’s, Comely Bank for the first time. It was quite a lovely wee service, using the 1970 Scottish Liturgy (the grey book), followed by coffee in the hall. I look forward to going back and becoming more involved […]

Photograph from iStockphoto.com.
The long awaited update on the fertility category very nearly didn’t happen as both Jane and I thought that our 3pm appointment today was at 3:30pm.
About an hour previous I had opened my filing cabinet, pulled out the “Fertility” folder and checked that the appointment card was there. It was. […]

Spot the difference: The difference between the Lucent Orinoco WiFi card and the Buffalo AirStation cards in a Psion 7Book.
This evening I installed a new (to me) WiFi card in my Psion 7Book. Out went the Lucent Orinoco Gold (above left); in went the Buffalo AirStation WLI-PCM-L11GP (above right).
The main difference, as you can […]