View from the Potting Shed

I’m not sure if this is in response to the “I love you” chalk graffiti around St Andrews just now, but I spotted this sign outside Zest, a juicing and coffee bar on South Street: “We love you too!!!”
… and free Wi-Fi too.

Walking to work this morning I was impressed with the quality of the graffiti in St Andrews:

I love you too!

An interesting juxtaposition of church building with the Incredible Hulk’s face.
It’s the Lammas Fair in St Andrews just now. Which means that the shows (the fun fair) are in town and currently blocking up South Street, Church Street and Market Street.
It was an eerie walk to work on Friday and this morning, silently walking in […]

I’ve just realised that I’ve been walking around all morning with my University ID badge hanging upside down from my belt.
I do hope that it’s not a sign of distress, like flying the Union Flag upside down is.
(Perhaps more distressing is how badly I tucked in my shirt for the photo.)

There was a comment at the IWMW2007 conference in York last week about how deceptive many photographs on university promotional websites are; for example, they always show deep blue skies with hardly a cloud in sight.
So today I decided to put it to the test.
The frontpage news headline on the BBC News website says “Flood […]

York skyline, showing York Minster. (Photo from York Musical Society.)
At lunchtime today I’m heading down to York with one of my colleagues from The University of St Andrews to the Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) 2007 at The University of York.
Assuming that I can get my wireless setup properly there (unlike at the IWMW last […]

Here’s part of my shopping list for today:

Kleenex hankies (for my desk)
Lunch
Ordination card
Hot water bottle

Hot water bottle?! In June?!! What have we done to our planet?
When I drove into work this morning the road was flooded. Almost all ten miles of it, from Anstruther to St Andrews. When I got into St Andrews it […]