Air-vents have to be inserted through the slates to ensure that there is no build-up of condensation between them and the newly installed in...

In the course of three weeks I have met with other Christians for worship, in three different cities, in three different styles, in three di...

We're not completely plastered yet. The taping and filing is well underway, but there's some sanding to do before the final layer go...

Q: Why did the hedgehog cross the road? A: To see his flat-mate! Q: What did the policeman say to his belly-button? A: You're under a ve...

"Wives," James the VI and I once declared in a notorious aside, "are a necessary evil". I suspect that His Royal Highne...

There lies my severed wedding-ring, its symbolic 'unbroken-circle' of never ending love, in tatters. The Dr in the "Accident an...

Grateful thanks to the A&E department of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary!

Watch out, watch out - there's a sparky about! Signs of walls appearing now too!

No doubt lovers of canals stare in horror at railway engines, who to the sound of steam whistles and the smell of smoke, steam and hot oil, ...

Rolls of shiny insulation are stapled onto the beams. At £250/roll, this stuff had better work well. Encasing the insides of the roof, thi...

Our roof is splaying, the structural engineer says someone has foolishly removed the cross-ties that hold it together. Here's new ones ...

Abandoned Lines

I have been reminded again this weekend of Tim Chester's post, "Communities of Performance Verses Communities of Grace" . Fi...

Next, insulation gets packed in between the rafters. This up-to-date stuff should not only keep us a bit warmer (and maybe cut our fuel bill...

Coming soon to a street near you...

Once the destruction has finished, the positive work of building something useful can begin!

In order to build, first you must destroy... A truth about our attic. Also possibly a parable. Anyone care to interpret and apply?

Tim Chester, (author, church leader, blogger etc) pictured on the left; is a very perceptive critic of the church - as it is usually organis...

Perthshire sandstone. It's crumbly, even the slenderest ivy shoot can chew through it's powdery surface, it can't cope with free...

(no narrative, sorry ER)

Scaffolding being put up at our house to start some work on the attic.

Located in what was, until the 1960s, the heart of one of Britain's most important railway stations, this clock has been helping travell...

So Russel Brand has quit, and Jonathan Ross is suspended following their on-air schoolboy prank which got a bit out of hand, at the weekend....

During the last year or so we have had two very different visiting speakers at our church, doing sermon series about the nature, meaning, pu...