{"id":7523,"date":"2025-07-13T16:44:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T16:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=7523"},"modified":"2025-07-13T16:44:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T16:44:27","slug":"sunday-13th-july-2025-day-1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2025\/07\/13\/sunday-13th-july-2025-day-1945\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, 13th July, 2025 [Day 1945]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As I awoke yesterday morning some time before 6.00am., I turned on ClassicFM<\/em> only to hear one of my favourite pieces which is ‘How lovely is thy dwelling place’ from Brahms’ ‘A German Requiem’. According to the web, in the Requiem, Movement IV is unique for its sweet character as a choral song. For many listeners, this is the highpoint of the Requiem, and it is definitely the movement most often extracted for separate performance. It is a flowing choral part-song in which the chief melody is most often in the soprano part. The text is direct and personal. Meg and I used to listen to this very often and I actually heard it played on ClassicFM<\/em> only day before. Although the smart speaker, Alexa, had difficulties in finding it, I would request this and then fall asleep to it in the days when I slept on a camp-bed alongside Meg when her bed (actually a hospital bed) was located downstairs. All of this is coincidence, of course, but listening to ClassicFM<\/em> as much as I do is a slightly two-edged sword as Meg and I used to listen to the same pieces together, ClassicFM<\/em> being such a staple in our house. We have three days of exceptionally hot weather to navigate and it is interesting to see how many people are solicitous and concerned that I do not suffer too much from the heat. My next-door neighbour, with whom I had a brief chat yesterday, insisted that I drink plenty of fluid and I do have a nice cooling mixture (cold water, with a little lemon barley topped up with tonic water) constantly on hand in the fridge. Even when I was down at the doctors yesterday, the very kindly health care assistant who was taking my readings made sure that I was taking all of the right steps to keep myself safe in the heat. Life will be just little more tolerable today as there will be no building work at the back of me over the weekend so this alleviates the pressure a little on two of the three days that I must navigate. According to Alexa this morning, I should expect a high of 31\u00b0 later on today and the internal thermometers that I have inside the house are telling me that early in the morning it is already some between 25-27\u00b0 and this is before the sun has really well and truly risen. One of the big news stories this morning is the preliminary report into the Air India air crash in which about 270 people died. It appears that both of the fuel lines to the engines had been cut off and one pilot was heard questioning the other why the fuel switches had been switched to the ‘off’ position. The other pilot denied having moved the switches but the evidence from the Black Box is clear and so a great mystery remains as to the thought processes involved in turning off fuel switches when you are attempting a take-off. No doubt this will be analysed ‘ad nauseum’ in the media throughout the rest of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The day has turned out to be quite an entertaining one. I knew it was going to be a very hot today so before my walk down the hill, I took with me a flask of iced water and a banana in case I was in need of rapid sustenance on the way home. I travelled to Wetherspoons<\/em> and ordered my normal repast which is an egg, cheese and bacon muffin where I leave one half of the breaded portion of the muffin to keep my carbs count low. I made contact with one of my Saturday friends and we chatted for a while before I left her to join Seasoned World Traveller whom I agreed to meet so that we could discuss CV’s. He had already sent me a two page CV and I suggested what might be some tweaks and improvements to it overall. On my way down the hill this morning, I noticed that the local large parish church of St. Johns were having an open day and inviting people in for coffee, cakes and a small recital. I would made straight for this if I had not already agreed to meet up with other friends this morning. Today was carnival day in Bromsgrove so the local roads were closed and the (shadiest) part of the local pavements filled with parents and excited children waiting to see the carnival floats process past them. But I made my way into St. John, not last because it was nice and cool. Although the cakes had all been consumed and the concert was over, I stood on the edge of two groups where various explanations were in progress. One was a ‘University of the 3rd Age’ group (which I may well join in future) and the firm of architectural restorers who have been tasked with renovating the church’s steeple were explaining how they were going about their task. At the end of my visit one could go an examine the golden spire and weather vane which had been removed from the very top of the spire and had now been ‘brought down to earth’ ready for restoration. I also stood on the fringe of another group who were having some of the mysteries of the church architecture explained to them so I found out all about ‘rood’ screens in mediaeval churches and their successors. When I left the church at about 12.30 the day was getting incredibly hot and the pavements thick wit excited crowds waiting for the procession of which I saw the first float as it caught up with me (the young children of the first school attached to the church I attend on Saturday evenings) I was extremely conscientious about seeking out every bit of shade tat I could for the journey home and certainly did not try to walk at all quickly in the extreme heat but just ambled back. The minute I got back cooled down with the aid of a fan to cool down the exterior of my body whilst a dollop of ice-cream was used to cool me down internally. Then I waited a good hour before I prepared a salad luncheon for myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I awoke yesterday morning some time before 6.00am., I turned on ClassicFM only to hear one of my favourite pieces which is ‘How lovely is thy dwelling place’ from Brahms’ ‘A German Requiem’. According to the web, in the Requiem, Movement IV is unique for its sweet character as a choral song. For many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7525,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions\/7525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}