View from the Potting Shed

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).

Me: Hello, our central heating boiler is not working and my wife called yesterday to arrange an engineer’s visit, she was told that someone would come out early — and certainly between 08:00 and 13:00 — but it is now past one and no-one has arrived yet. I just wanted to make sure that […]

Ah, the joys of moving to a new house. The Scottish Gas engineer arrived this morning around 11:00 — hoorah! He promptly diagnosed the problem: the unit’s water pressure was too low and the on/off switch was broken. Half an hour later the boiler was working. Hoorah! pt.2. At last, we had both heat […]

At the moment Jane and I now have our metaphorical property fingers in three metaphorical property pies. Today it was confirmed that our offer on 45 Lindsay Berwick Place (pictured right) was accepted. Our move-in date is Wednesday 8 November.
So now we have to ensure that our furniture is out of Kadesh before 17 October, […]

Back at work yesterday and I was still feeling a little dizzy and headachy but delighted to be back. Feeling a little fragile, I listened to Delirious? The Mission Bell. (If you don’t believe me just check Last.fm!)
I’m quite particular about the music I listen to: for example, I’m one of these people that […]

Summary: Jane returned home from Fort William this evening — where she’d stayed in a B&B for only 10 minutes, for £30.00, before turning around and driving back to Cellardyke. She arrived around 10:45, just in time for us to take our cat Spot to the vets as an emergency.
What a week! First the upset […]

Well, today we certainly viewed some houses. ‘We’ being Jane, myself and our neighbour Yvonne, whom we introduced as our Interior Designer.
It was actually a joke, but the lady showing us around three of the five properties must have believed me because she kept asking Yvonne’s opinion on what she would recommend in terms […]