View from the Potting Shed

Aha! Let’s go for a stroll!

I love The Mighty Boosh.
This interview with The Mighty Boosh on BBC Breakfast is absolutely wonderful. It’s like trying to shovel balloons into your welly.

Interesting video about climate change.
Yes, it’s nearly ten minutes long, but it’s worth watching … hey! what’s the worse that could happen?
Basically, he looks at the options if current theories about global climate change are correct or incorrect, and maps them against the options of whether we either do something about it or do nothing.
The […]

Reorientation
This morning I got up nice and early, around 07:00, because I really felt the need to get back into a regular rhythm.
I find the period between Advent 4 and Epiphany quite disorienting. For the other 50 weeks of the year Sunday is still my reference point from which the rest of my week’s activities […]

These little gadgets look cool: Vox Amplugs are headphone guitar amps that come in three distinct flavours:

Vox AC30 (based on a Vox AC30 Top Boost amp)
Classic Rock (based on a UK-made amp head)
Metal (based on a California-made high-gain amp head)

You plug the Amplug into your guitar and a set of headphones into the Amplug, and […]

Here’s a website that I go back to every now and then: Extreme Instability.
It’s not an indication of the state of my inner emotional life, it’s a website of really cool photographs of natural phenomena, such as lightning storms, aurora, fog, night skies, tornadoes, etc. Some are available as wallpapers too.
What an incredibly beautiful […]

Some days lyrics that you know so well stand out. Get Away by Kings X.
And if you get offended by a certain word then you’ve probably missed the point completely.
Get Away (3:25)
Hey God, I watched the news tonight
why are your people so fucking mean?
Hey God, that kid was locked up for 3 years
why do the […]