View from the Potting Shed

Tomorrow, I’m preaching once again at St Mary’s, Newport-on-Tay so having had a full and busy week I’m sitting at my PC on Saturday morning/afternoon pouring over the gospel reading (John 4: 5-42) searching for inspiration.
I already have a sermon that I’ve preached on this Sunday in the lectionary (Year A, Lent 3) but I’m […]

This afternoon Jane and I drove over (drover?) to Dundee to Ninewells Hospital to sign consent forms and give a blood sample for screening (Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV) prior to our IVF treatment beginning sometime this year.
Seemingly we were supposed to have done this preparatory work a few months ago but with the […]

The problem
Here’s something that I found annoying a few weeks ago, until I found a hack: when I have particularly long text notes stored in my Outlook tasks and then synchronize them with my Windows Mobile 6-powered O2 Xda Orbit phone/PDA I discover that the notes are truncated. I get this message at the […]

About a fortnight ago I got an email from a friend of mine, Ian Rooney. He’s a pharmacist. In Fife.
You might know him from such unavailable board games as Move Yer Hearse, which involves a hearse that you … erm, well, move. And … erm … I think that’s it.
Why not leave him […]

Whose idea was it to have Lent so early this year?! Today I suspect that a lot of people will be giving up Lent for chocolate.
Lindt today, Lent tomorrow.
Happy St Valentine’s Day everyone. xxx

The antibiotics appear to be beginning to work, although I’m predictably now feeling a little rougher around the edges and more tired. But nothing that a handful of pills and a month in bed won’t fix!
Sadly, that’s not going to happen though.
Job satisfaction
Work is incredibly busy just now. (When is it not?) But […]

We’re funny creatures human beings. So ready to blame ourselves when something goes wrong.
Sitting at your computer, you open Outlook to check your email and then quickly open Messenger. The computer freezes. “What did I do?! Was that me? I must have done something wrong.”
No — these things happen. It just happened while […]