View from the Potting Shed

The lovely Jane with Kenny and Chris Fyfe on the Newcastle side of the banks of the River Tyne.
What’s better than having great friends is getting to visit great friends once in a while.
So yesterday (Friday), en route for my friend Jonny’s ordination in Hereford Jane and I stopped off in sunny Newcastle-upon-Tyne to visit […]

Today I received my first ever car parking fine. Bah!
I had been visiting my Great Aunt Mary in the Corstorphine Hospital with my Mum, when we got a call from my sister Jenni. She was also in Edinburgh buying some clothes for a job interview, and we needed to get Mum and Jenni together on […]

My word! What an enormous leap in version numbers Opera seems to have done!
It seems no time at all since I upgraded from Opera 8 to Opera 9, and then not that long ago I opened Opera to discover this dialog box, inviting me to upgrade … to version 90.2!!
A new version of Opera, Opera […]

When my nephew Benjamin was learning to speak he couldn’t pronounce my name (Gareth) properly. Instead he used to call me “Geigy” (pronounced Guy-ghee).
While I was lurking in some corner of the University a couple of months ago I came across this book: Geigy Scientific Tables, Seventh Edition.
Yay! It’s my nephew’s made-up name for […]

This morning I’ve been reading about the importance of silence in prayer, and the absence of words. Ironically, this quotation from the Taoist philosopher Chuang Tzu spoke to me:
The purpose of the fish trap is to catch fish and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of the rabbit snare is […]

… and now for something completely different: Hurra Torpedo performing Total Eclipse of the Heart.
If you’re not familiar with them Hurra Torpedo are “the world’s leading kitchen appliance rock group”. Those are their words, I’m sure you have your own favourite kitchen appliance rock group so please don’t let their boasting upset you.
My favourite YouTuber […]

Catching up with friends’ blogs today I came across Neil’s review of the Channel 4 show “Keith Allen will burn in Hell” the other night, the show where he visited one of America’s most controversial churches, the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas.
I don’t watch very much TV so I missed that this was on, but […]