View from the Potting Shed

It’s amazing the things that we get worked up about as human beings; we put so much energy into fretting about things that we have no control over, or which will never happen anyway. That said, that realisation was no comfort to me on Wednesday as I prepared to visit Ninewells Hospital in Dundee […]

This evening while uninstalling Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 I got this alert message:

Erm… which applications? Install?!
Later on I was pulling out my hair (what there is left of it) trying to work out why my Mozilla Firefox document icons had disappeared from all .html and .htm files.
Thanks to my friend James he found the […]

Pete Cornish TB-83 Treble Boost guitar pedal. Sadly I don’t have one of these, though.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved Brian May’s guitar tone. That unique combination of his fingers, his homemade guitar (the Red May Special, famously built by Brian and his dad Harold out of amongst other things an old […]

Was that it? Where has the summer gone? Have I slept through it, or has it not begun yet? The first thing I did this morning was switch on the heating and make myself a bowl of porridge (or ‘porage’).
I’m no meteorologist or geographer but I’m sure I remember from my school lessons that […]

Each morning as I drive the 10 miles or so to St Andrews I pass a scene that reminds me, every time without fail, of a Pink Floyd album cover. Can you guess which cover it is?

If you were thinking Animals, then I’m sorry to disappoint you. Battersea Power Station is in London, […]

One of the great things about Nikki in this year’s Big Brother — other than the great way that the Geordie voice-over man pronounces her name: Nih’ee — is her totally-made-up-phrases™.
This evening’s totally-made-up-phrase™ was: “Whatever tickles your pickle!”
What on earth does that mean?! “Whatever tickles your pickle!” What could she possibly have mixed that […]

Last night a DJ saved my life. Oh, hang on … that’s not right. Last night I drove Jane down to Edinburgh because this afternoon she picks up our new car, a Renault Megane 1.5 Sport Tourer. Only ours will be in dark grey rather than electric blue.
It was while I was away […]