View from the Potting Shed

Wendy and Mike sitting at Cellardyke harbour. (Wendy forbade me from posting a photo of her on my blog, so I’ve just cloned Mike where Wendy was sitting.)
Alright, maybe I wasn’t back for all that long! I now have a back-log of all the blog posts that I want to make, but just in case […]

Tom Birch and I playing mahjong cards late one night.
Sorry about the blogging hiatus. I’d meant to write something before I went, and I had expected to have WiFi internet access while I was away, but it was too much of a hassle to set up and then I quite enjoyed not being connected […]

I spotted this sign on Friday in Glasgow as we were heading through an open gate towards the tall ship for the start of cycle photographs.
The sign reads:
This way to the tall ship.
and the arrow points in completely the opposite direction. Well, it made me laugh.

The D of E cycling team pose for a photograph in front of a tall ship at the start of the journey.
Well, she managed it. Jane and the rest of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award team cycled the 60+ miles from Glasgow to Edinburgh yesterday in a respectable 8 hours. Very many thanks to all […]

Here’s a question for you:
If you were given a computer with only the operating system installed (the default or ‘typical’ installation) and were then allowed to install only three (3) applications

what operating system would you install?
what three applications would you install
and why?

Notes
Within the definition of application I am allowing an integrated office suite, such as […]

Hola. El escape del agua ha estado fijado. Sin embargo, el fuego en la cocina ahora está roto, así que la calefacción central ahora no trabajará. Es importante que usted no utiliza el fuego. Hay agua caliente. Gracias por ser paciente. Estamos apesadumbrados para cualquier inconveniencia causada. Sinceramente, Gareth y Jane Saunders
That’s the note that […]

Charlotte Anderson and Jane on a clifftop, somewhere in California, 2004.
One of the most exciting events in our family life while I was a child was a visit from “Auntie Charlotte”. I could go into the family tree details of how we’re related but it’s both beautifully simple and complicated all in one. […]