View from the Potting Shed

Saturday

Team Weir with Jane outside the Potting Shed
On Saturday my good friend Andrew Weir came to visit with his lovely wife Jenny and 9 weeks old daughter Beth.
I first met Andrew back in wheneveritwas (1999?) when I was invited to play bass guitar for the Powerpoint Edinburgh band. The band then was: Andrew (guitar […]

So there I was, playing with my food at lunch and I appear to have accidentally created the next Turner Prize.
For those who might not know about the Turner Prize:
The Turner Prize is a contemporary art award that was set up in 1984 to celebrate new developments in contemporary art.
The prize is awarded each year […]

This week I’ve been sorting out a pile of CDs that have been been slowly working its way up skywards, like a compact tower of Babel.
They’ve been mostly music CDs from the covers of Metal Hammer, Rock Sound and Terrorizer magazines, but there were also a couple of guitar tuition CDs and the odd DVD […]

Today I got the following email message from a viewer:
Question
Can you please confirm something for me. I have recently finished reading ‘Join me’ by the legend that is Mr. Wallace, after reading it I mentioned to a work colleague that I myself was going to start doing random acts of kindness each and every Friday, […]

Photograph by Tuvi from stockxpert
Every week I get an email newsletter from The Alban Institute. Each issue contains a leading article, usually about some area of church leadership, followed by a few book reviews and adverts about upcoming US-based seminars and workshops.
It’s really interesting if you’re into that sort of thing. I usually […]

On Wednesday evening I sat down at my PC and tried to scan a document on my Epson Perfection 1670 Photo scanner.
Troubleshooting
I placed the document on the scanner’s glass, closed the lid and fired up the scanning software (Epson Scan).
Scanning …
Nothing.
I tried again. Again nothing. Every time I tried the scanner appeared to work […]