View from the Potting Shed

As some of you will already know, I have some friends. One of them, also called Gareth (although he usually goes by the name of Gaz) also appeared in a book that I’m in. What are the chances of that?!
Anyway, Gaz sent me an email today, that I thought would be better sharing […]

This weekend began with a fairly relaxed Friday evening, sitting in bed watching Green Wing. In bed because (1) upstairs was the warmest part of the house, and (2) the small colour portable TV isn’t trying to show us Landsdækkende kommerciel TV kanal.
Moving house

Not quite Pickfords, but definitely cheaper!
On Saturday morning (-ish!) we drove […]

Yay! Go me! I’m a winner! Me and the rest of the team.
Seemingly I’ve been a contestant on the Channel 4 show Shipwrecked. And I didn’t even know it. And I’m now 22. Again. And blonde.
Honestly, I go away for the weekend and come back and now I don’t even recognise myself!

This was the (rather shaky) scene from our bedroom window at 03:54 this morning, using our new Fujifilm camera in night mode. I woke up needing to use our bathroom facilities and when I saw the sky thought “I’ve got to try to photograph that”.
So I did. And now I’ve shared that (and […]

This evening I discovered Google Trends.
Okay, so it’s not for comparing which is better, but it sure can be used that way. And can be a whole lot of fun!

Last night Jane and I drove down to Edinburgh to hear the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the SCO Chorus performing two of my favourite pieces of music by Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus K618 and Requiem. We left shortly after I arrived home from work, and got back very late, hence no blog post yesterday.
Ave […]

Gareth looking glum watching nothing on television.
Jane has just popped next door to watch the final of The Apprentice on BBC2. For some reason, known only to the broadcasting gremlins our television isn’t working now.
Or at least, the television set itself is still working, it’s just we can’t get a good enough signal for […]