View from the Potting Shed

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Here’s my favourite wallpaper just now. It’s like the Windows XP “bliss” wallpaper, but a little less Tellytubby-esque. It reminds me of The Shire, from the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and looks quite spectacular on my laptop.

My laptop automatically ‘healing’ itself - reinstalling Windows XP Home unattended. (Oranges optional.)
Since buying my Lenovo 3000 C100 laptop back in July I’ve been installing all sorts of rubbish on it (such as beta versions of Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Office 2007 and … stuff) secure in the knowledge that with the Lenovo Care […]

It’s lunchtime and I’m blogging, looking out of my office window opposite the University Library at a very wet St Andrews; very wet indeed. In fact about half an hour ago I was out in it (”isn’t it!”) and I am now, in the words of my dearly departed Great Aunt Ella, “Plachit through […]

A brief insight, for those who may be interested, into our bedtime routine. At least this is how it was tonight.
Jane: Is it bedtime yet?
Gareth: Yes … at least, it is for me.
Jane: You can’t keep me away from my bed!
Gareth: That’s true … Has the door to the front of the property been […]

While you were asleep (probably, if you live in the UK) I was up early (05:45) and working on the final few edits and corrections to the first draft of the Teach Yourself Mahjong book which landed on my doorstep about a fortnight ago. So far I’ve only spotted about 15 corrections, which is […]

This is either:

the day that the bailiff’s came to visit
or

Jane beginning packing, starting in the living room

I suspect that it is the latter, but I pixelated their face anyway, just in case.

When I was a child I thought like a child, which is probably why I found that this koala that was gifted to me by my grandmother in Australia really freaked the living daylights out of me.
You see my koala was once a real koala. And I don’t mean this in the slightly jokey, childish […]