View from the Potting Shed

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As spotted by my good friend and, as they say in Denmark, trommeslager, Andrew.
This is a different kind of cookery programme … one that made me cry with laughter. What a tremendous skill this young man has.

Ah, yes. Here’s my favourite user-unfriendly Windows dialog.
This is what you get when you try to synchronize Microsoft Outlook with a Psion 5mx using Psion’s very own PsiWin 2.3.3 and have deleted quite a few of the entries before synchronization:

For those of you who can’t read tiny, compressed images of text, it says:
Synchronizer
The […]

Sunrise at 04:58 this morning.
I was awake shortly before 05:00 this morning. Lying in bed I was aware of a bright red glow from behind the curtains. Assuming that it was not a fire but the sun I grabbed my PDA/camera/phone and captured the photo above.

From the rising of the sun to its setting,
God’s glory […]

Clearing up a few weeks ago I came across two certificates from online certification experts Brainbench. One was certifying me as an HTML Programmer:

The other — and I strangely feel more proud of this one — was certifying me as a “Windows 98 Power User”:

I’m not just a User, I’m a Power User.
I’m a […]

Saturday morning

I was in Selkirk again on Saturday helping Mum sort things prior to putting her house on the market. My brother Eddie and I focussed on the study, where we’d dumped various books, boxes, and files from previous weeks’ tidying. It was satisfying putting right the mess we’d made before.
Saturday afternoon

In the afternoon Eddie’s […]

For the last few months (for ‘few’ read ’six’) we’ve been meaning to get around to driving all the way to Cellardyke (for ‘all the way’ read ‘less than a mile’) to pick up a few boxes that we’d left in the outhouse at Toft Terrace. There were a couple of boxes of gardening […]

Photograph by Sergei Krassii
Yesterday morning I climbed into my car (a silver Vauxhall Astra 1.4, thanks for asking), switched on the engine and was met with a wall of sound chugging its way out of the back of my newly-broken exhaust. Darn!
So this morning I dropped my car off at our local, friendly garage […]