View from the Potting Shed

I still can’t quite believe it: I’ve just ordered myself a new PC from Cube247.
My current PC has been slowly dying over the last few months. Even after a complete reinstall it falls over during the most mundane of tasks: watching video online, ripping CDs to MP3, erm … checking the time.
It did it […]

What is it about national companies these days. Seriously, does no one care about customer care any more? Are we all just anonymous consumers paying our electronic cash to anonymous, faceless corporations?
Can you tell I’m a little annoyed?
I was on the phone to Mum this evening. She’s really upset: it appears that she […]

Me with my Mum and Dad, in 1997 (I think)
Today is the 10th anniversary of the death of my father, Keith John Saunders. He died at 23:50 on Sunday 04 January 1998.
I can hardly believe that it’s been so long. Ten years.
Here’s something I wrote shortly after he died:
Where did he go? My faith […]

This afternoon I went for my shortest but probably most expensive cycle trip ever. I took my bike to St Andrews, but unfortunately I wasn’t riding it at the time.
Around 15:00 I set off on my bike, cycled about 100 yards to the main road and stopped for a car to pass. Stood […]

Got home from the carol service last night (more about that in a future post) to discover that we had no telephone or broadband connection: no dial tone.
A quick call to BT Faults (0800 800 151 — omit initial zero if calling from a mobile phone) revealed that the problem lay at the exchange, and […]

My clerical shirt and vestments hanging in my office.
This evening I’m preaching at the Alumni Carol Service at St Salvator’s Chapel, University of St Andrews, starting at 18:30. So my clerical shirt and vestments are currently hanging up in the office.
I would have hung them all behind the door but unfortunately I’m too tall for […]

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Today is St Andrews Day — patron saint of Scotland and Russia. Which, this year, means one thing in our house: it’s the day for Jane’s IVF-related operation.
For those who don’t know: we’re on an IVF programme at Ninewells hospital, Dundee and a few months back during a routine scan […]