I Walk the Line

On the way back from a meeting tonight I walked along a wall beside the Main road. I’m not saying it was high up or anything – only about a foot off the ground, but it’s a long time since I walked along a wall like that – a situation not made any easier by [...]

Photos from my recent trip to Moffat

I’ve taken to driving to visit my Mum in Moffat via the motorway. It’s faster and easier (especially at night) but it lacks some of the winding majesty of the A701 road to Moffat.

okay, now I'm angry

okay, so maybe not angry yet, but annoyed enough.

I’ve been a Telewest subscriber since I moved into my home, and we had it when I was at home. I was happy with the Broadband options and the TV package, but recently I’ve been more and more irritated.

Ever since Virgin Media took over the [...]

Happy Birthday Speccy

the ZX Spectrum, 48k

No, I’m not talking about me (although I do wear rather nifty rimless specs and did celebrate a birthday a few days ago.) I’m talking about my beloved old Sinclair Spectrum.  According to the good old Beeb, the Sinclair Spectrum is 25 years old this month (younger than me – [...]

Great Geek Prank

I have a lot of fun in my office, but the other day I was getting kind of peeved. I would keep typing on my new Vista PC and weird stuff would happen. I couldn’t work it out but was swearing at Vista. The application would swap accidentally and strange spellings and mistypings (worse than [...]

That'll leave a mark

I was on the bus to work yesterday when we stopped at the east end of Princes Street. We’d been passing and being passed my a huge vehicle on a lowloader since Murrayfield but it had pulled past as the bus made a couple of stops.

When we got to Princes Street we had to [...]

My First Valentine (a couple of days late)

I vividly remember sending my first Valentine. Her name was Pamela and I was in love. I was about seven.

I walked to school and back every day – not very far. Crossed the road, down the traffic free lane and then over another road to school. Five or ten minutes depending on how keen [...]

Sensible UK Copyright Laws – Sign the Petition

Did you know that if you rip a CD to MP3 files and then copy those onto your Ipod or other MP3 player, then you are breaking the law? There’s a Petition to the Pirme Minister to look at more sensible copyright laws. We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to create a new exception [...]

I'm not much of a dancer

But I remember dancing to this when I was at school discos, circa 1985.

My Winter Musical Mystery

Back when I was about 9 years old I took part in a musical at school and I can’t for the life of me remember the name. I think I was some kind of elf – it was my first and last experience with makeup and I hated all the work taking it off. I [...]