View from the Potting Shed

In our nearly seven years of marriage Jane and I have got on remarkably well. We’ve had very few major rows, always make sure that we make up and sort things out before we go to sleep, and I still love her dearly on this the 2,436th day after our wedding. But like […]

When leaving one chapter of your life not everything is terminal!
Today was my final Information and Communications (I&C) Board meeting as the representative of the Diocese of Edinburgh, and I managed to make an entrance by turning up about 50 minutes late having just shown a nice man from Pickfords (whom it turns out was […]

Not made much time to blog these last couple of days: sorry. We appear to have lost an hour, too!
On Sunday Jane and I travelled down to Selkirk to spend Mothering Sunday with my Mum. A lovely lasagne, and then extended sleep for all of us during the afternoon. Jane was rudely […]

These days not only is there a big push for Web Accessibility it is a legal requirement in many countries, including the UK (although there is an interesting article about this on A List Apart).
It was Jeffrey Zeldman’s excellent book Designing with Web Standards (soon to be published in its second edition) that drove home […]

The Great Clear-out™ continued apace this morning with my wardrobe and drawers being utterly decimated. Most of my old clothes will have to go to the great landfill in the earth, but a few can be salvaged and sent to feed the unclothed of Corstorphine.
Here’s what I’m getting rid of:

27
t-shirts

7
shirts

2
clerical shirts

3
trousers

2
shorts

3
Scotland Rugby Union replica […]

Seeing Jonny Baker’s Sign of the Times photograph on his blog today reminded me of this photograph I took in London last month (above).
It was taken near Waterloo station. What struck me were the two icons: On the left, outside a church building, a statue of Jesus’s crucifix: an icon that you very often […]

I don’t collect postcards so much as acquire them, and then don’t throw them out. I’ve got loads of them in my desk drawer.
You just never know when they might come in handy. Like … erm, when you want to pretend that you are enjoying an 80s-style holiday in Ustroń, Poland.
I have no […]