View from the Potting Shed

I’m off work again.
I was off last week too, having picked up a cold the day before I was due to return after the Christmas and New Year holidays. I got over what I thought was the worst of it by Wednesday and returned to work, even though I didn’t feel 100% and managed […]

This afternoon I went for my shortest but probably most expensive cycle trip ever. I took my bike to St Andrews, but unfortunately I wasn’t riding it at the time.
Around 15:00 I set off on my bike, cycled about 100 yards to the main road and stopped for a car to pass. Stood […]

As a worshiping community, we have been challenged by such a moment as this!
A moment when we know we are living with AIDS and that we are loved and affirmed.
A moment in which we can offer compassion to those with AIDS and HIV.
A moment where we can sit and comfort those who suffer illness or […]

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Today is St Andrews Day — patron saint of Scotland and Russia. Which, this year, means one thing in our house: it’s the day for Jane’s IVF-related operation.
For those who don’t know: we’re on an IVF programme at Ninewells hospital, Dundee and a few months back during a routine scan […]

After a couple of weeks away from cycling — having been recovering from a bad cold — it’s been great to get back on my saddle and pedal around the beautiful Fife countryside of an evening. At least, I think it’s beautiful countryside: I can’t actually see much of it since the clocks have […]

Last Wednesday my renal consultant (I have Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease) put me on ACE inhibitors, which are a drug that have the side-effect of reducing one’s blood pressure.
Today Jane picked them up from the chemist. But I’ve just read the instructions:
ONE tablet to be taken in the MORNING
Take 30-60 minutes before food.
What?!
They’ve […]

Kidney beans don’t get high blood pressure.
Bill e Bob left a comment on my last post “PC absolution” saying “Enough of this techno-geekery, where is your devastating review of the rugby? I think in the words of our more aggressive football-supporting brethren, ‘It’s all gone quiet over there’”.
It’s all gone quiet for one special reason: […]