Each year I prepare a digital copy of the Scottish Episcopal Church’s calendar and lectionary which I then import into my Google Calendar. It allows me to easily see where we are in the church year, plus bible readings and this year for the first time the collect (prayer) of the day.
This year there has been a bit of a controversy about what we do about the feast of St Stephen (26 December).
Continue reading What are we going to do with St Stephen this year?
Seven years ago, in May 2014, Reuben (then 5 years old) told me that he wanted to write a song called “Oh I am a spaceman”. Over the next hour we wrote the song and recorded it with a wonderful drum accompaniment from Reuben and uploaded it to Soundcloud.
It is possible that the accompanying children’s book may appear this year.
Continue reading “Oh I Am a Spaceman” book in progress
So… thanks in a large part to the unprecedented disaster that is Brexit, Britons who until now have been used to panic buying toilet paper and flour have now turned their attention to panic buying fuel.
Continue reading I’ve been buying diesel in a panic (but not panic buying)
If you are not already using a text expander application then I highly recommend that you start. It will save you hundreds, if not thousands, of keystrokes every month.
As the name suggests, a text expander application is a utility that runs in the background and looks out for you typing predefined phrases which it then replaces with usually a longer text version.
For example, when I type --@e, my text expander replaces this with my full email address: gareth@garethjmsaunders.co.uk, saving me 25 keystrokes.
Continue reading Espanso text expander
This has been quite the week for cycling for me. I went out on my bike for the first time in over a year. Broke my bike. Took it in to get fixed and ended up buying a new one.
Continue reading Cycling adventures