View from the Potting Shed

This is it. By the morning our Telewest Blueyonder broadband internet connection will have been disconnected, and a nice man will be chapping at the door asking kindly for their equipment to be returned.
On the whole, it’s been a good three years living here in Edinburgh. We’ve had our share of fun, we’ve […]

It really feels like we’re moving now. My shelves are now bereft of cassettes, compact discs and most of my books.

I have 17 boxes of books so far. I’m just glad we don’t live in the National Library of Scotland, otherwise I’d be up all night (at the very least) filling banana boxes.

All […]

It’s “Move-Day minus 1″ before the packers return to load everything else into the back of a lorry and drive it safely over to Fife, and we’re getting organized (you may have guessed that already from previous blog posts).
What still needs to be done?

Something we’ve found helpful as we’ve been dotting between rooms is a […]

Having moved house a few times now, and being the kind of organized fellow that I am, I’ve found that having a small cardboard box called the “Packing Box” filled with the following items makes for a much easier life.
Into my packing box I’ve thrown:

Tape gun and extra parcel tape — having used one of […]

We’re moving to Cellardyke in a couple of days’ time. Up until last week when we told people that they would invariably ask “Where?!” Now they say “Oh!!”
Anyway, it’s all looking safe. No threat of Avian flu making the leap to a human pandemic quite yet. We telephoned DEFRA, on the […]

With all this controlled hype in the media about Avian ‘flu. It got me thinking: I wonder if we ought to be more worried now about TB.

John 20:1-10
Early in the morning on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone was moved away from the entrance. She ran at once to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, breathlessly panting, “They took the Master […]