Archive for August, 2007

Off to Selkirk again …

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Off to Selkirk again for another overnight at Mum’s. Today was the day that Mum handed over the keys to her old house of 35 years. An emotional day.
We’ll be sleeping in the guest bedroom tonight (see photo above), amidst the boxes. Tomorrow’s task will be to reduce that pile of cartons to nothing, as […]

The website that nearly was

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Yesterday I was going to blog about an exciting, fresh new website I’ve been working on. I was going to share with you something of my process of taking a website from an initial idea, through the various stages of design to launch. The site was going to be launched yesterday morning.
But then something happened.
The […]

We love you too

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

I’m not sure if this is in response to the “I love you” chalk graffiti around St Andrews just now, but I spotted this sign outside Zest, a juicing and coffee bar on South Street: “We love you too!!!”
… and free Wi-Fi too.

I love you

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Walking to work this morning I was impressed with the quality of the graffiti in St Andrews:

I love you too!

A (house) moving experience

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Wow! Well that was one long, tiring and emotional roller-coaster of a week. For the last six days I’ve been in Selkirk (in the Scottish Borders) helping Mum move house; I got back late last night and pretty much went straight to bed.
Here’s how my week has been:
Monday 20 August
I spent all morning, and […]

Who organises the rota?

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

While preparing my sermon this week I came across the following shocking statistic amongst various notes:
1,800 people leave the Church in the UK each week; that’s one every six minutes.
Sadly, in my notes I didn’t record the source of that statistic or the date for which this particular statistic was true. But in a […]

New Argos monitor risers available

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Readers may be interested to learn that the Autumn/Winter 2007 edition of the patented Argos monitor riser is now available from your local branch of Argos.
The latest version is in a tasteful blue.
Monitor bug
In other news: I’m now down to only two monitors now. I look like such a noob!
My own second monitor has […]