The day began well – and I won’t say it hasn’t been a predominantly sustained rapture – but mid afternoon unanticipated complications arose which disarranged and soured the initial perfection. We’ve had to battle the internet and computers, never an auspicious confrontation because more often than not the assured winner is technology over humanity. In the result I am uncertain whether it was just one of those “reboot” situations required; or, whether the site we were attempting to access was undergoing maintenance; or, whether the latest Apple update contaminated everything; or, finally whether it were necessary merely to remove the historic bookmark and start from scratch. Whatever. We at last succeeded in our researches and endeavours; and, in fact and in fairness enlarged upon the functionality of the site. But what an unforgiving exercise! We were close to fisticuffs between ourselves as the mounting obstruction heightened our voices and sharpened like arrows our otherwise well-intentioned directions to one another. Nonetheless it was a relieving undertaking upon completion. Now at last I am at liberty to gaze upon the becalmed river in the distance, mellowed almost to the point of incongruity as the sun sinks and the shadows overtake the whole. By chance Pacelbel’s Canon restores my fractured conciliation.
