View from the Potting Shed

As part of my hosting company’s drive to provide me with the best possible level of service they sent me an email expressing their delight in announcing that my blog will likely be completely off-line any time between 18:00 on Tuesday 17 July to 04:00 on Wednesday 18 July.
According to WebFusion’s schedule, my server is […]

Today we were down in Selkirk again for a flying, less-than 24 hours, visit. We’re efficient like that.
During that time we took in visits to:

The Fireplace in Hawick (they sell fires)
a sawmill near St Boswells (they make and sell garden sheds)
Keith McLean’s carpet showroom in Selkirk
the civic amenities site (the dump!)

Just to bring you all […]

Photograph from iStockphoto.com.
This evening Jane and I headed over to Ninewells Hospital in sunny Dundee for an introductory lecture on Assisted Conception — specifically In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI). Let it never be said that I don’t know how to show a girl a good time on a Tuesday evening!
We were […]

From 1995 - 1997 I worked for the Shaftesbury Society with young homeless people (16-25 year olds) in London. I worked in three hostels: two direct access (in Kilburn and Camberwell) and one supported hostel in Bermondsey.
I remember hearing at that time that there was enough money being pumped into the various homelessness charities and […]

At last! My online experience is now complete. For this afternoon I managed, using the wonders of modern technology, to synchronize my Microsoft Outlook 2003 calendar with my online Google Calendar.
I used the excellently simple SyncMyCal which allows you to synchronize your Google Calendar(s) with either Outlook or Pocket Outlook (on a PDA).
The free version […]

With O2 seemingly about to secure the contract to supply the Apple iPhone to the UK here’s a video for those of you who want to know what all the fuss is about.