View from the Potting Shed

This morning was spent doing churchy business type things, like team meeting, going over the 1929 Mattins service with one of my colleagues in preparation for Sunday, and showing a family around the church building.
This afternoon was spent working on my presentation for tomorrow’s interview in St Andrews, and trying to fight off a tummy […]

Jane and I got back from London last night, to discover amongst the mail on the doormat a letter from the University of St Andrews inviting me to an interview. On Wednesday. That’s right: this Wednesday; the day after tomorrow!
The interview is for the post of Assistant Information Architect/Web Manager, which would be such […]

While we were walking along the Thames the other day we were more than a little surprised (and amused) to witness a boat with wheels driving down a slipway into the river, just southeast of the MI6 building.
The amphibious vehicle was from the London Ducktours company, which waddles its way around London, through the streets […]

Gareth standing across the River Thames from the Houses of Parliament in London.
We’re having a great time in London, although you know when you stop after having been really busy for weeks: you just STOP; that’s happened to both Jane and I!
Yesterday we met up with exNYCgb friend Mike Jeremiah, and walked for miles around […]

This morning
The things they don’t teach you at theological college, part 134: What to do with dead ants in the consecrated wine. I don’t think I had any other option, I poured the wine into the earth outside and started again.
This afternoon
I visited the renal (kidney) clinic today for my sixth monthly check-up (only […]

Screenshot of Outlook showing saints’ days and festivals imported into the Calendar.
Better late than never! I’ve finally got around to typing up the Scottish Episcopal Church saints’ days and festivals in a format that can easily be imported into the Microsoft Office Outlook Calendar.
Please feel free to download this file and follow the simple, […]

Jane, Benjamin and Jenni standing in front of the fireplace in our house in Cellardyke.
Yesterday my sister Jenni and her son Benjamin travelled up from Selkirk, and visited our house in Cellardyke for the first time. I can hardly believe that given we’ve had the house for over 15 months now Jenni and Benjamin […]