View from the Potting Shed

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 […]

This afternoon Jane, Rich and I had a very successful and educational trip to the Scottish Fisheries Museum. As it says on the sign out front: it’s bigger than it appears.
It’s a sign!
The place was littered with signs instructing visitors:
Please do not take photographs.
The intense light from camera flashes can damage the objects on display
I […]

Our friend Rich is over from sunny Stirling this weekend.
The plan was to repaint the shed and fence (Cuprinol ‘Autumn Brown’ in case you were wondering). Somehow, I don’t think that’s going to happen today.
Not unless we dismantle the shed, rebuild it indoors, dry it with a hair drier, repaint it, dry it with […]

A photograph of lightning in Costesti
There was a lot of yawning going on in St Andrews today when I went out to buy birthday cards and sandwiches. I suspect that last night’s spectacular display of thunder and lightning had something to do with it.
Card shop
The lady who served me in the card shop told […]