View from the Potting Shed

When I turned up at Perth College (Goodlyburn building) shortly after 19:00 for Steve Lawson’s gig I was surprised to learn from the woman at reception that she had no idea there was a concert on that evening. In the concert hall directly opposite the reception desk.
Isn’t communication a great thing. It’s clear to […]

How did I completely miss Mitchell and Webb’s Peep Show when it was on the electric television?!
It was my cousin Zack who emailed me a few months ago from the United States of Americans and recommended it. “Why is British comedy so much better than American?” he said. Or something like that. He uses […]

Tomorrow night Jane and I are off to sunny Perth to see the lovely Steve Lawson in concert at Perth College (starts 19:30).
The plan is then to kidnap Steve back to Anstruther and force him to play a concert in our living room on Friday evening.
And like the obliging friend that he is Steve has […]

I thoroughly enjoyed my day yesterday preaching at St Peter’s, Linlithgow and St Columba’s, Bathgate. Here’s how I was introduced in the pew leaflet:
WHO’S THE HANDSOME YOUNG PREACHER? That’s the rector, of course! But standing next to him is Gareth Saunders, a friend and fellow clergyperson, who thought he was coming for dinner and […]

A few months back I stumbled across a website that had this bright red box proudly displayed on its page:

It was clearly an advert for something, but I thought that it might be quite fun to see what it reckoned “the exact name of my perfect lover” would be.
I already knew: Jane Ellison Saunders.
So I […]

I searched Google Images for Pip. This was the first image it offered me.
Off to see Fr Pip in Linlithgow and Bathgate. I’m preaching at both congregations tomorrow morning.
I’ll report back with tales from the mission frontline tomorrow.

The latest version of Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8, I’m sorry to report, broke a couple of our web pages yesterday.
UPDATE: This problem has now been fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.9: see Firefox 2.0.0.8 update to be updated
I noticed it just as I was about to go out for lunch. I was checking out a page on the […]