View from the Potting Shed

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 […]

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 […]

On Saturday I got the chance to check out the Apple iPod Touch at my friend D’s house in Edinburgh, and I have to say that overall I was impressed.
D really wanted me to see if I could connect it to his wireless broadband connection and with no manual, or recent experience of the Apple-style […]

I think I’m stuck in Groundhog Week! Looking back, this is how every week has felt since about March:

Monday

Work

Tuesday

Work

Wednesday

Work

Thursday

Work

Friday

Work, then drive to Selkirk

Saturday

Sort out Mum’s house

Sunday

Sort out Mum’s house, worship God, drive to Anstruther

I don’t mind saying that I’m now feeling quite exhausted. I’m writing this at 16:25 on Sunday afternoon, but it feels […]

On Friday evening I popped down to sunny South Queensferry (next to the Forth Road Bridge, just outside Edinburgh) and met up with old friends Alan Vance and Ricky Carvel; friends from my first time at St Andrews (1989-1993).
Alan
Alan is a physicist who works for the Met Office in Exeter (at the other end of […]

Conversation between Jane and me while driving home from Edinburgh on Saturday night. I was driving and feeling quite tired; Jane was in the passenger’s seat.

Gareth: How awake are you?
Jane: Not very, why?
Gareth: Don’t worry, I just wondered if you wanted to take over driving. I’m getting sleepy.
Jane: I could … it would probably […]

On Saturday morning Jane and I drove to Selkirk to see Mum for three hours. It’s getting mighty close to her move (a week on Wednesday) so we popped down to help out with a few things and pick up the rocking horse, to take it back to its new ‘paddock’: guest bedroom #2.
Then […]