View from the Potting Shed

Only a few weeks now until Christmas, the lights are up in St Andrews and a few locals are decking their houses with illuminated Christmas decorations. But sadly none quite as spectacular as this.
(I know this isn’t terribly new, but is for those who’ve not seen it before. Enjoy!)

The Scottish flag: a blue field with a white saltire. (Artwork by Gareth J M Saunders.)
Today is the feast of St Andrew, apostle and Patron Saint of Scotland (and Russia and Romania). The special ‘collect’ prayer for today:
Almighty God,
who gave such grace to your apostle Saint Andrew
that he readily obeyed the call of your […]

This evening my PC died. I’m gutted.
It looks like it may be the motherboard (MSI K7N2 Delta) or the CPU (AMD Athlon XP 2800+), or possibly the RAM (PC2700 333MHz DDR). I’ve managed to find the same model of motherboard and CPU on eBay and ordered it (it was on Buy It Now […]

A paradigm of neatness and organization is our attic.
If there is one thing that boys love …
– apart from football, rugby, cricket, ice hockey, basketball, American football, cycling, the Tour de France, wine, beer, whisky, a night out with the lads, curry, swearing, throwing things into rivers, films, going to the movies, computer games, computers, […]

Good news
This morning I took delivery of my Psion Series 7Book, returning as it did from POS Ltd in London almost two months after I sent it for repair. It seems traditional in some quarters at such times as these to complain bitterly about such poor service and vow never to use them again. But […]

Of course, no respectable music room would be complete without a Steve Lawson Bass: The Final Frontier poster.
Or a wall of classic 80s and 90s REAL METAL on cassette.
Today’s random blast from the past from Gareth’s Amazing Wall of Metal™ is Crowforce’s self-titled album from 1992. Who could forget such metal/crossover classics as “White King”, […]

This video clip (from the Sky One TV show Brainiac, featuring the ever wonderful Richard Hammond and the splendidly clever and down-to-earth Jon Tickle) is what the internet is all about: it’s educational, informative and fun. Oh and it also shows common household objects being (safely) blown up, which is always a bonus.

(Spotted on […]