View from the Potting Shed

One of the smaller Web projects that I’ve been working on over the last few months is a new website for my parents-in-law, Peter and Dorothy Neilson: Sacred space at Linne Bheag.
Weebly
It’s built using Weebly, which is a really simple to use content management system.
Weebly is wonderfully easy to use, even easier to use than […]

Fife on wheels
I can’t remember … much actually! No, I can’t remember any other new year where I’ve been clobbered with quite so many bugs as this one.
I seem to have had at least one new stomach bug or virus each month. Some months I was greedy and had at least two.
So I […]

A nice and friendly way to begin a presentation.
About 10 months ago we launched a new website for the University.
Over the last few weeks we’ve been hosting a number of feedback sessions inviting folks to comment on what they think works, what doesn’t work, what could be improved, and giving us an opportunity to showcase […]

It would appear that to park in the Dyer’s Brae staff car park in St Andrews you would need a car that is some kind of shade of red or blue.
It would also appear that a complete inability to park straight would help too, as this photo ably demonstrates:

Very poor, Mr Reeves; very poor!

Over the last few weeks I’ve been taking a few photos with my phone. Not the best quality of photos, I’ll admit, but I thought I’d share them with you anyway.

This is a red sunset that we had a few nights ago. When I arrived home I just had to stand and marvel […]

Today Jane and I were in Edinburgh for the baptism of our nephew Aidan.
En route we managed to buy me a really nice dinner suit (for only £95) from Slater Menswear on George Street in preparation for the National Youth Choir of Great Britain’s 25th anniversary concert at Birmingham Symphony Hall next month.
We also popped […]

Last night I did something I’ve not done in fifteen years: I had dinner at a University of St Andrews hall of residence.
Pizza express
Rewinding a few hours, I had just finished a lunchtime presentation about website statistics and customising our search engine when I was standing chatting with someone and nibbling on the left-overs from […]