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 […]
Today I received my first ever car parking fine. Bah!
I had been visiting my Great Aunt Mary in the Corstorphine Hospital with my Mum, when we got a call from my sister Jenni. She was also in Edinburgh buying some clothes for a job interview, and we needed to get Mum and Jenni together on […]
On Saturday I got my phone back from the O2 Repair Centre; I picked it up from the O2 shop at the Gyle Shopping Centre in Edinburgh — more of that in a moment.
There was a note attached:
Dear Customer,
That’s me.
Thank you for sending your mobile phone to us.
Your handset has been examined by one of […]
View out to the Bass Rock from a beach near Dunbar.
What a wonderfully relaxing weekend Jane and I had in the company of our lovely friends D and J. Following my evening at Powerpoint Edinburgh and Jane’s at a Colour Me Beautiful party we rolled up at D and J’s house in south Edinburgh […]
Yesterday my brother Eddie and I drove down to Selkirk for a four hour, military-precise exercise to build a new bed for Mum and return her now up-to-date and working PC. At least that was the plan.
The bed was built in under an hour, a spot of lunch was taken before Eddie set to work […]
What on earth is going on with our mail just now?! First, it appears that Jane has been inadvertently ordained as we’ve started receiving mail addressed to “Rev Jane Saunders”.
Next, it would appear that whoever sent this envelope had no idea which town I live in. Or which case to use: UPPERCASE or lowercase? […]
Wendy and Mike sitting at Cellardyke harbour. (Wendy forbade me from posting a photo of her on my blog, so I’ve just cloned Mike where Wendy was sitting.)
Alright, maybe I wasn’t back for all that long! I now have a back-log of all the blog posts that I want to make, but just in case […]
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Hi, I'm Gareth J M Saunders, 36 years old, 6' 4", married to Jane, I'm a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church and have a passion for Mah Jong, Psion PDAs and web design.
I am employed as the Assistant Information Architect / Web Manager at the University of St Andrews.
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