View from the Potting Shed

On Friday 15 September, as Jane and I were driving down the road to Selkirk we both suddenly realised that we’d left our digital cameras at home. Usually that’s not much of a problem, but we were heading down to attend the wedding of our dear friends Kenny Fyfe and Chris Goble in Selkirk.
Thankfully my […]

Tomorrow, in Selkirk, I will have the privilege of conducting the wedding service for a couple of friends: Kenny Fyfe and Chris Goble; I was at Selkirk High School with Kenny from 1983-1989. For some of that time Kenny appointed himself as my “Manager”, but that’s a whole other ballpark of worms (to mix […]

On Friday evening, the BBQ at work having been cancelled due to the inclement Scottish summer weather, Jane and I drove down to my hometown of Selkirk in the Scottish Borders for a flying, overnight visit.
I’d not seen Mum since my final service at the end of April, which was strange because when I was […]

Mum is home now. In Selkirk, in case you hadn’t guessed. I got a text this morning from Jenni (sister) to say that Mum had been turfed out of her ward into another as they needed her bed. She was then picked up by her cousin and driven home.
Now, what Mum really […]

Yesterday my sister Jenni and I visited the Borders Scrap Store. Jenni needed something to make a tree trunk, and came away with a 4-5 ft cardboard tube. I got a huge roll of self-adhesive 8″ x 6″ white stickers — something Jane and I had been looking for to prepare for our […]