James Ots

This last weekend I went to Scotland again. I drove instead of flying this time. It took me six and a quarter hours to get there, with no problems until I driving along the Crieff – Comrie road. The engine started losing power, and stopped altogether just as I drew up outside Andrew’s house. Fortunately, ...

Yesterday I went into Gosford Books in Coventry to look for a book for a friend. I had a look over the novels section but didn’t see it. There didn’t seem to be any particular order to the books there anyway. So I asked the owner if he had the book. ‘The Four Feathers, by ...

My latest set of photos of Scotland are now available on the inappropriately named England Photos page. While I have a bit of space to fill here, I may as well mention Lifehouse, a band I discovered a few weeks ago. I’ve had their latest album Stanley Climbfall in my stereo nearly non-stop since then, ...

Last week I went up to Scotland again, under the pretence of doing web design. But in the end I hardly touched my computer, except to view photos from my digital camera. On Thursday a friend and I drove up to Inverness where we did some shopping and then went to the Dores Inn where ...

Last Sunday I got into my car to drive to church. But I only got to the end of the road before the car stopped and refused to start again. At the time I assumed the fuel pump had broken, but after phoning Mike the mechanic I checked the fuel line and discovered that the ...

Well, I’ve not been out taking photos much recently because I’ve had two colds – the first of which I got in Scotland, the second I got back here. Which is pretty grim. And I’ve been busy working on a website for a customer which I finally got done last night (Hooray!). Hopefully I will ...

On Thursday night I sent some digital photos the Jessops over the internet for printing. Despite warnings that processing could take up to five days and delivery up to two, the prints arrived this morning. I’m also impressed with the quality of the prints; it’s impossible to tell that they’re digital prints and not from ...