View from the Potting Shed

Driving home from work the other evening (Tuesday) I had to stop to take photos of the sky.
It was dark and brooding, and yet there was an incredible light from the sun breaking through the clouds. My O2 Xda Orbit managed to capture something of the vibrancy of the evening.

I wish that I could […]

Yesterday I arrived home to discover that I had a parcel. Technically, it’s probably more a “packet” than a “parcel” but hey! Anyway, here it is:

I got all excited. I love getting parcels. Everyone loves getting parcels.
What could it be?
As I’d ordered a few geeky accessories for my new phone on the internet I […]

This month I come to the end of my 18 month contract with O2, so on Friday morning, while in Edinburgh waiting for my train connection to Glasgow, I upgraded my mobile phone from a Nokia 5140i to an O2 Xda Orbit.
Which I imagine in car terms is a bit like going from a Vauxhall […]

Jesus said “You cannot be the slave of two masters!” (Matthew 6:24). BT said exactly the same this morning when they discovered that someone had tried to wire a second master socket to our original master socket.
At 08:30 a BT OpenReach engineer turned up at the door — not the cheeriest engineer that I’ve ever […]

Well … I’m really quite speechless. Literally! Our telephone line is now not working.
We, quite remarkably, have a broadband service — 8 Mbps no less — and a broadband talk service — that’s VoIP to you and me — but no landline telephone.
So I went online and reported the fault at BT Faults. We’re now […]