View from the Potting Shed

Remember the 24 game that Jane and I play while watching episodes of 24? During the breaks we try to guess at exactly what time the break will end.
Well, it gives me great joy to announce that last night, while watching Series 3, 01:00 - 02:00, Jane correctly guessed the time that it came back […]

Jesus said “You cannot be the slave of two masters!” (Matthew 6:24). BT said exactly the same this morning when they discovered that someone had tried to wire a second master socket to our original master socket.
At 08:30 a BT OpenReach engineer turned up at the door — not the cheeriest engineer that I’ve ever […]

A fine couple of days in the company of good friends Steve and Lisa. Of course, I could have posted photos of our beautiful walk through beautiful St Andrews on a beautiful sunny, spring afternoon yesterday. Or outside church in Leven this morning.
But no, I chose a photo of them geeking out on the sofa […]

Well … I’m really quite speechless. Literally! Our telephone line is now not working.
We, quite remarkably, have a broadband service — 8 Mbps no less — and a broadband talk service — that’s VoIP to you and me — but no landline telephone.
So I went online and reported the fault at BT Faults. We’re now […]

Ninewells Hospital (Image courtesy of the University of Dundee)
Today’s big adventure was a trip to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee for my six-monthly renal appointment. (For new readers, I have an inherited kidney condition: autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.)
I’m always a little nervous at renal appointments — too many experiences of doctors shouting at me and […]

I found a box of old postcards today. Expect to see them appear on the blog through the coming months.
For starters I thought I’d share with you this postcard from my school friend Alasdair — who was always known to us as “Egg” back in the day — from a holiday he enjoyed (?) in […]

The miniature earth is a powerful and humbling presentation that begins:
If we could turn the population of the earth into a small community of 100 people, keeping the same proportions we have today, it would be something like this…

It’s based on the State of the Village Report which reduces the world population to a representative […]