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 […]

Mum standing next to one of her new pine bookcases.
Here’s what we got up to at Mum’s on Saturday. This is my to do list:
To do at Mum’s
Jane

Rudely awaken Jane at 08:00 - DONE
Poke Jane with pointed stick* - DONE

* I was quite inventive: I used the stylus from my O2 Xda Orbit.
Hallway

Affix door […]

Wow! Well that was one long, tiring and emotional roller-coaster of a week. For the last six days I’ve been in Selkirk (in the Scottish Borders) helping Mum move house; I got back late last night and pretty much went straight to bed.
Here’s how my week has been:
Monday 20 August
I spent all morning, and […]

For the last few months (for ‘few’ read ’six’) we’ve been meaning to get around to driving all the way to Cellardyke (for ‘all the way’ read ‘less than a mile’) to pick up a few boxes that we’d left in the outhouse at Toft Terrace. There were a couple of boxes of gardening […]

Me: Hello, our central heating boiler is not working and my wife called yesterday to arrange an engineer’s visit, she was told that someone would come out early — and certainly between 08:00 and 13:00 — but it is now past one and no-one has arrived yet. I just wanted to make sure that […]

Our new music room.
The move went well; very well, despite my last minute worries and minor panics. As I get older (and possibly wiser) I’m getting better at trusting that things will work out fine if I give them space. So long as I’ve prepared well and set things up I’m happy. […]

This morning Jane and I drove to Cupar to pick up Van #1, which was fine. Enterprise were polite, courteous and very helpful and in no time we were driving off towards St Andrews in a newly cleaned Renault Master similar to the one in the picture above, only our one is a long wheel […]