View from the Potting Shed

Yesterday afternoon, before seeing Motörhead, I caught up with my friend Simon Varwell in Glasgow. Cos that’s what you do exactly seven days before moving house: you travel 100 miles to meet up with friends when you should be packing!
Walking from a trendy café in the Merchant City towards … somewhere (I don’t know […]

In preparation for The Big Move™ on Friday and Saturday (10/11 November) I popped into our local hardware store in St Andrews and bought a handful of gloves for myself and the others helping us out. At least that’s what I thought. It turns out that I bought these:

Mens PVC Dot Palm Working […]

So, last night Mhairi and I went to see Motörhead (remember to pronounce it correctly, with the umlaut: Mot-eu-r head) at the Carling Academy in Glasgow thanks to a pair of tickets kindly gifted to us as a Join Me Random Act of Kindess by an anonymous donor. Who could it be? Who […]

Last night Jane and I travelled to Edinburgh to see The Queen. What it is to have connections.
Well, alright we didn’t actually meet Her Majesty in person, instead our lovely friends Dusty and Joy, Jane and myself sat in a darkened room in Wester Hailes and watched Stephen Frears’ film about the House of Windsor […]

Hands up if you know of whom this is a photograph. (If you do know, well done … you geek!)
It was thanks to this fine English gentleman, Sir Tim Berners-Lee (TBL) that I was able to ask you if you knew who he was. You see, in 1989 while I was happily preparing […]

If I ever decide to write a novel (stranger things have happened!) I’ve found the perfect Random Name Generator™: SPAM! By which I mean unsolicited e-mail rather than the tins of spiced pork and ham.
Here are the marvellous names of people who today have supposedly e-mailed me personally to inform me about how I can […]