{"id":7439,"date":"2025-06-08T14:55:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=7439"},"modified":"2025-06-08T14:55:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:55:43","slug":"sunday-8th-june-2025-day-1910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/08\/sunday-8th-june-2025-day-1910\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, 8th June, 2025 [Day 1910]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday when I got up, I set to work completing a little computing job which worked out very well. I had written a one page ‘Commentary’ on the classic photos I recently retrieved from a filing cabinet drawer and which I have now scanned and put on their own little website. In time, I may incorporate them into the main site for the time being, I am quite happy that they form their own separate little archive as it were. The ‘Commentary’ link means that when a viewer accesses the website, by clicking on the link they have a one page summary detailing some of the history and the significance of the photos I have just located and they can go ‘Back’ to view the collection. The day started in a cold and gloomy fashion and I have no particular commitments scheduled for today except to pop down and see my friends in Wetherspoons which I actually missed last Tuesday. So after breakfast, I trundled down the hill and met up with my three friends. I also did a quick tour of the venue and bumped into Seasoned World Traveller from my park visiting days. He was feeling a bit under the weather but I gave him an information sheet about the funeral arrangements as I thought he would want to miss a church service but might be able to make the tea party in the afternoon. Then, just as I was leaving, my University of Birmingham friend hove into view and we agreed that we would both go out somewhere tomorrow, perhaps for a pub lunch or somewhere overlooking a bit of water which my friend always finds relaxing. I called in at Waitrose<\/em> to collect my copy of The Times<\/em> but they had taken no delivery of it that day- as I was preparing to buy a copy of ‘The I<\/em>‘ newspaper, one of the friendly partners pushed it into my hand without my having to pay for it. On my way home, I ran into my Italian friend who was on her way to visit another friend so we just had a brief chat and I informed her that I would travelling up to Harrogate for a few days in the week following the funeral. I lunched on a curry + vegetables mixture I had evidently prepared and stored some time ago in the freezer so I thawed it out and had it on some broken up water biscuits (the latter being to cut down on carbs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the afternoon, I continued playing about with, and refining, some of the ways in which Meg’s classic photos can be displayed. I remember that I utilised some software written years ago (and not by me) which put each photo into a window and you accessed a series of buttons along the bottom to select the appropriate photo. The first entry needs to be a caption table so there is an explanation of each photo but I thought this system was pretty neat and economical so I adapted it from when I had last used it. This seems to have the occasion when Meg and I had a holiday in Cantabria and was eight years ago – with writing this blog and looking after Meg, I have not had the time or the opportunity to have much ‘playing about’ time to keep my skills current. In both of the rolling displays and this static but user-controlled one, I have written a simple one page background to these important finds but it actually took up most of the afternoon to adapt and enhance the code which I had written eight years go. Now this is done, I can use it for other collections – for example, I might take a lot of photos of my Yorkshire family I have not seen for years. In the late afternoon, I went to church which was a little quieter than I expected this evening. The next time I enter the church, Meg’s coffin will be there and I just hope that I will be able to keep my emotion in check ready to read our the eulogy. All should be well until the valedictory last line or so which has quite an emotional punch to it at the end but I am rehearsing this so that I can do it correctly when the occasion demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It now seems extraordinary to me that four weeks has gone by since Meg’s passing and a funeral which is practically five weeks after the event is not ideal. But there is so much to do when someone dies but so far, with the assistance of my son, practically everything has gone smoothly. Although Meg was sleeping so much for the last few weeks when her body was gradually shutting down, I was having carers in four times a day and, in theory, there should have been two on each occasion so the house seemed quite busy. But these days, it is very quiet but I am trying to develop new routines so that I am not tempted to sit around and mope. Getting next Wednesday out of the way will be a big help. I feel it is rather like organising a play that will have a run of one night only but there is no time for rehearsals and, like taking a photograph, you generally only have one opportunity to get everything right. But organising all of the photos and responding to a lot of email and other messages has taken a lot of time so I am actually going o bed pretty tired out these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other side of the Atlantic, The Trump-Musk row rumbles on. The two men could, of course, patch things up. It wouldn’t be the first time either has said outrageous things on social media that they later shrugged off. But in one way, the damage has already been done. The world has witnessed two of its most powerful people row like teenagers with no evidence of the wisdom, restraint or cool-headedness most would expect of reliable businessmen and heads of state. Given the state of the world right now, what the lurid details of their row says about the two men is more terrifying than titillating. I must admit that I had not realised that SpaceX is so heavily reliant on government contracts from NASA and the US military. But it could be years before a competitor can rival its near-monopoly on space launches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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