View from the Potting Shed

On Friday nights some couples go to the cinema, other couples go to the pub. We, however, take our cat Spot to St Monans at 11 pm to have his bladder drained by a vet. But, as my friend Simon says, I’m sure we’re all the closer for it.
Second weekend in a row. What […]

My head’s spinning the world’s twisted
My head’s twisted the world’s spinning

– Delirious? lyrics on Gravity
The last couple of days have passed by in a bit of a blurry haze, to be honest. Just as I was emerging from the Common Cold™ I started to get dizzy. This morning I telephoned the local “GP practice […]

This morning I finished reading Mr Beck’s Underground Map: A History by Ken Garland. It has been sitting on my bookshelf since March when Hazel recommended it to me.
The London Underground map is truly a work of genius. It maps London’s underground railway lines and connections rather than faithfully recreating a geographically accurate map. […]

… probably not.
(Thanks to Cousin Char in California for sending us this postcard.)

As many readers of this blog will know, we’re sadly putting our wee ‘holiday’ cottage up for sale.
The plan was to extend it and move in, but a couple of weeks ago we learned that that was going to cost us far more than we expected in order to give us the space that we […]

Tomorrow, in Selkirk, I will have the privilege of conducting the wedding service for a couple of friends: Kenny Fyfe and Chris Goble; I was at Selkirk High School with Kenny from 1983-1989. For some of that time Kenny appointed himself as my “Manager”, but that’s a whole other ballpark of worms (to mix […]

So there we were — Jane, Spot and myself — sitting in the living room watching a repeat of Doctor Who on the electric television while eating dinner of a nice Madras curry (Spot wasn’t eating his bowl of curry for some reason) when all of a sudden there was an ALMIGHTY crash and everything™ […]