View from the Potting Shed

I came across this image of a calloused hand holding a small metal cross about eight years ago on the cover of the X-Fest official programme in Kerrang! magazine. It’s from a photograph of Bill Ward — the drummer from Black Sabbath — hand holding his Black Sabbath cross.
Father and Son
But there is something about […]

Clearing out stuff at Mum’s the other week I came across this story of mine that I’d written at primary school. I thought I’d share it with you. It’s called “Come to the Land of Skull Bay”.
Format
Before I share the story, I thought I’d make mention of the format that I found this story […]

Driving home from work the other evening (Tuesday) I had to stop to take photos of the sky.
It was dark and brooding, and yet there was an incredible light from the sun breaking through the clouds. My O2 Xda Orbit managed to capture something of the vibrancy of the evening.

I wish that I could […]

One bonus of having two monitors at work is that if you suddenly get a Windows XP Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) — my first in maybe five years — then at least you can see your pretty Windows desktop image and the BSOD!
You can also see from that photo that I got myself a […]

I received this via e-mail the other day from my friend Bill, it made me laugh:
An Englishman decided to write a book about famous churches around the world. For his first chapter he decided to write about British churches so he bought a train ticket and took a trip to London, thinking that […]

At this time yesterday I was still at the office; I hadn’t eaten since lunchtime, and I still had a list of cascading style sheet (CSS) bug fixes to get through before I could drive home to see the lovely Jane and eat the veggie curry she had kindly made for me. At tea time. […]

The other day I transferred a short five minutes video clip from my DV camera. The bundled software saved it to MPG format, which I then tried to import into the Windows Movie Maker application that comes installed as standard on Windows XP.
Only it wouldn’t have a bar (frame?) of it, instead presenting me […]