View from the Potting Shed

It’s going to be weird not being in Edinburgh for the Festival this year. And not having our house overrun with friends and lodgers for four weeks. I’m sure Jane is secretly relieved, as in previous years I’d say things like,
Oh yeah, I meant to say, we have seven people sleeping over tomorrow […]

Scotland keeping The Barbarians from scoring a try, at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh yesterday.
Yesterday evening, after work, I drove down to Edinburgh to join Jane and members of her office at Murrayfield, to watch the Scotland rugby team play The Barbarians.
And just to prove that I was actually there, and that the photograph wasn’t simply taken […]

This weekend began with a fairly relaxed Friday evening, sitting in bed watching Green Wing. In bed because (1) upstairs was the warmest part of the house, and (2) the small colour portable TV isn’t trying to show us Landsdækkende kommerciel TV kanal.
Moving house

Not quite Pickfords, but definitely cheaper!
On Saturday morning (-ish!) we drove […]

When I arrived home today I was fully expecting to find a delivery note from a the Royal Mail or a courier company to say that they’d tried to deliver our new digital camera. On Friday I received the following e-mail from SavaStore:
Dear Gareth Saunders
That’s me.
Thank you for your order placed with savastore.com
You are […]

Today we finished unpacking, and completed a few of the odd jobs that were still on our home-made ’snagging list’. At least when we return from Edinburgh tomorrow we’ll come back to a fairly tidy house. The entrance hall, however, looks pretty much like the image above. That’s Bank Holiday Monday’s task, […]

Especially for Ric here is a photograph of the Crown Removals lorry driving away from 54 Drum Brae Park en route for Cellardyke.
I won’t rant (yet) about the damages incurred, the cutlery left behind in a drawer in Edinburgh, or the fact that despite our numerous telephone conversations warning the removals firm that they wouldn’t […]

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