View from the Potting Shed

The worst thing about being ill is the being ill bit of it.
Two weeks ago my body was working fairly well. I won’t pretend that I had the physique of an Olympic athlete, or that I was a paradigm of health — I still had dodgy kidneys, courtesy of an inherited genetic condition (thanks Dad!) […]

Believe it or not, I didn’t do any blogging last week. Oh, I know that blog posts appeared on the site each day but I actually wrote those two Fridays ago, while watching Comic Relief, and scheduled them to appear throughout the week, just so you wouldn’t miss me!
The plan
Last week I was in Selkirk, […]

A quiet yet productive evening:

Listening to the amazingly-wonderful Black Hawk Down soundtrack. Regardless of what you might think of the film the soundtrack is other-worldly, fusing African and Eastern melodies and rhythms with Western. Terrific!
Replying to e-mails. Catching up with e-mails that I received almost a month ago.
Inviting various friends and family to visit/stay/eat.
Watching […]

I didn’t want the year to end without sharing these thoughts with you. I, like many, woke yesterday to the news on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that Saddam Hussein had been executed by hanging in Iraq earlier that morning. And just as I had felt a deep pang of sadness when I […]

If it is your discipline, please pray for my sister Jenni as she went into hospital this morning by ambulance.
She’s had a really sore back for about 6 weeks now but this morning was in real agony, Mum called the doctor who immediately recommended an ambulance and a Do Not Pass Go card straight to […]

For the last few weeks I’ve been quietly composing a blog post in my head asking what is becoming of this country, by which I mean the UK. That can wait for a more pressing question might be: what on earth is going on in Ipswich? And what is going on with regards the […]

A thought-provoking comment next to a friend’s MSN Messenger profile:
If as many people wore AIDS ribbons as wore a poppy society might value life as much as it honours death.
Discuss (3,000 words).