View from the Potting Shed

Artist’s impression of a bicycle chainy geary thing.
I went out with Jane today. We’re married, I know, but we wanted to somehow re-live the excitement of those heady days of dating. Oh hang on! No. I hadn’t finished that first sentence. I’ll start again.
I went out with Jane today on our bikes. […]

Hoorah! My blog has changed completely, and yet nothing has.
This evening I took a break from writing and upgraded my blog to the latest version of WordPress (2.0.4). And while I was at it I updated my plugins too. So now the backend (the bit I get to see) is happy and […]

Hoorah! My Mum has come to visit me in Cellardyke. This evening we went out (as usual) to hang out with the Cellardyke Massive down by the outdoor swimming pool and kiddies play park, looking for some adventure. It’s right opposite the East Neuk Outdoors an adventure centre on the outskirts of Cellardyke, […]

My bike propped against a bridge, with Kilrenny in the background.
I was out on my bike again today, and what a glorious day to be cycling around the small backroads of the East Neuk of Fife. It was the debut for my new Altura Nevis fluorescent yellow cycling jacket, which was soon relegated to […]

I’ve never really been one for seizing opportunities.
If it’s a choice between sitting at home watching TV or nipping out to the jungle for 48 hours to investigate why the bison are restless, then I’ll probably still be looking up the TV schedule on my PC when you get back.
Or presented with the opportunity to […]

Quite a few people have been asking me recently how work is going. So I thought I’d say a little bit about how work is going: Work is going very well, thank you for asking.
I can hardly believe that I’ve been in the job for ten weeks now. In some respects it feels […]

I think I must have said a couple of times in this blog that our current abode is but a stone’s-throw from our holiday cottage Kadesh. Well, here’s the proof that it is in fact right next door.
The photograph above was taken this evening, as I hung out of the back window that overlooks […]