View from the Potting Shed

The album cover for Fish’s latest album, Field of Crows.
I’d just like to take this opportunity to make a public apology to Fish. Sorry for accosting you in Borders book store this evening. I was the one who approached you quite boldly exclaiming “Mister Fish!” while you were trying to pay for whatever-it-was […]

Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 1000W.
You’ve heard of Ash Wednesday, well for me today has been Toner Tuesday.
Tomorrow morning, at 09:30, I have an Ash Wednesday service with the imposition of ashes at St Ninian’s, Comely Bank. Because the Wednesday morning service follows the same liturgy as the previous Sunday tomorrow we’re using the 1970 Scottish Liturgy. […]

The most used words on my blog, arranged into a “word cloud”.
Spotted on GadgetVicar’s blog. From Snap Shirts: you can instruct their box of computer magic to trawl your blog and it will produce an image showing a word cloud of the most often used words on your webblog; the more a word is […]

My friend James pointed me to this earlier today. It’s a short film parody on You Tube showing what the Apple iPod packaging might have looked like had Microsoft been responsible for it.
Geeky question: if anyone can tell me what fonts are used in it, I’d be very grateful. Particularly the handwriting-style font.

View looking down George Street, Cellardyke. Toft Terrace is the lane leading off to the right.
What an incredible couple of weeks these have been, filled with friends (Steve and Cath, Steve and Lorna, Peter, Rich and Andrew), the amazing news about a new job — I promise I’ll shut up about it soon, but […]

Calamateur in concert, Andrew on acoustic guitar and Mark at keyboards.
This evening Valleyboy Rich, the lovely Jane and I popped over to The Vine Church, Dunfermline to see our long-time Inverness-based friend Andrew Howie’s band Calamateur gig at the Vine Café.
The venue was contemporary, and not at all church-like, which suited the gig perfectly. […]