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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Last week I was on holiday. It was always my intention to blog as the week went along but I got too involved in other stuff, away from the computer.
I know! How weird. Anyway, here’s how the week went:
Sunday: Deacon Blue

Deacon Blue in concert, looking more like Deacon Purple.
Sunday was my birthday. I was […]

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When the sun rose this morning, shortly after 07:00 I realised that it was a beautiful day outside: the perfect day to take a panoramic photograph of St Mary College’s quadrangle in St Andrews.
When I stepped out of the door it began to rain. And rain. And rain some […]

For some reason (ask a psychologist) each time I drive past fields of hay bales, or whatever the rolled-up variety are called, I’m reminded of the German war graves I saw in Belgium, near Ypres and Poperinge on a trip with Toc-H. Or scenes from films of Scottish battles; the bales are memorials, marking the […]

The weekend wasn’t a complete wash-out: we managed to paint the shed after all. The shed, and both sides of the fence. A task that took all afternoon.
Around midday — and two chapters into Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy — Rich and I realised that the sun was finally coming out, the shed’s […]