View from the Potting Shed

While I’m scanning photographs, here is a recent photograph of my brother Edmund and his son Owen. This was taken by Mum, I think, following Owen’s baptism. Both Eddie and Owen were dressed almost identically; Eddie and Mini-Me, indeed.
Since I’ve last seen him Owen is now crawling; Jane returned from Rebecca and Eddie’s last weekend […]

On Friday 15 September, as Jane and I were driving down the road to Selkirk we both suddenly realised that we’d left our digital cameras at home. Usually that’s not much of a problem, but we were heading down to attend the wedding of our dear friends Kenny Fyfe and Chris Goble in Selkirk.
Thankfully my […]

At the moment Jane and I now have our metaphorical property fingers in three metaphorical property pies. Today it was confirmed that our offer on 45 Lindsay Berwick Place (pictured right) was accepted. Our move-in date is Wednesday 8 November.
So now we have to ensure that our furniture is out of Kadesh before 17 October, […]

For the last four months or so I’ve been working on a new redesign of the SAULCAT interface for the University of St Andrews Library. SAULCAT, for those not fortunate enough to have studied at the University of St Andrews, stands for St Andrews University Library CATalogue.
By the time you read this (I wrote […]

Kadesh has now been sold.
On Monday 25 September we sold Kadesh, only eleven days after we put it on the market. It was truly an answer to prayer; praise God!
Having been so disappointed that we couldn’t afford to extend the house in the way that we envisioned it we quickly set about putting it up […]

Conversation overheard in bed at 05:00 this morning:
Gareth: I love you.
Jane: I love you too.
Gareth: I love you more than … George W Bush.
Jane: That shouldn’t be difficult, you hate George Bush.
Gareth: I don’t hate him. I just think he’s … in the wrong job.
Jane: Ok.
Gareth: Anyway, I still love you more than George […]