From London to Inverness
The view from my hotel window in London last week. Last week, from Sunday to Friday, I was in London on a course: PHP Programming and MySQL for Web Development with StayAhead Training. The course was...
View ArticleA day of Metallica on TV, visitors we never saw and Jane in hospital
Nice bucket! Well, that’s been an interesting day. It began with me staying up far too late (past midnight, no less) to watch Metallica perform at the Reading and Leeds Festivals on BBC 2 and ended...
View ArticleCommissioning of the Ministry Leadership Team
Bishop Brian preaching at St John’s Selkirk. On Saturday Jane and I drove down to Selkirk — via Kirkcaldy to pick up a pram, via South Queensferry to have lunch with my brother, via Hermiston Gait...
View ArticleThe best job in the world?
My friend Iain has applied for what is being dubbed “The Best Job in the World“: The Caretaker of the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef. Not sure how it can be, to be honest, given that the best job in...
View ArticleYou have to put oil in the hot, noisy bit!
Last Thursday — almost a week ago now — I’d booked the day off work so that we could drive across to Perth to meet up with our dear friends from our Inverness days, Andrew and Lindsay Howie, to catch...
View ArticleCan you run it?
Battlefield 2 passes with flying colours on my laptop Downsizing and upsizing By the recent photographs of my study in various states of disarray you probably know by now that I’m in the process of...
View ArticleDaddy’s taking us to the zoo today
Reuben beside the Penguin Cow sculpture at Edinburgh Zoo Joshua beside the Penguin Cow sculpture at Edinburgh Zoo I had a day off today so that I could meet up with my old National Youth Choir of Great...
View ArticleLuxembourg … and back again
On Friday I took the train down to Manchester, caught up with my good friend from my National Youth Choir of Great Britain days Danny Curtis and the following morning at pointlessly-early-o’clock (I...
View ArticleHighlights of a sunny day
Today has been a lovely, if exhausting day packed with friends, family and a lot of laughs. A few highlights: Waking up at 06:30 and spending an hour in the cuddly company of a very smiley Isaac....
View ArticleAre we a generation of idiots, smartphones and dumb people?
Remember those days before the world wide web, before social media when we were… well, actually social. We could sit in the same room with someone and chat with them in person rather than via Facebook...
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