Wedding Time

Tomorrow morning we will set off for Berkshire to attend my niece's wedding.

As a church organist, I have played the organ at numerous church weddings (and blessings), in fact too many to count. At one of the churches I was organist at, I think we averaged two per Saturday for about five months of the year!

In my longer distant past, I worked as a wine waiter in the restaurant of an art gallery whilst at University. Because of the setting, many wedding receptions took place there and so I have served the "happy couples" in a different capacity.

However, my niece's wedding will be the first time I have attended a wedding where the entire event takes place at a single location. I have even heard that we will not be going outside. Indoor photos, eh?

I will write a review (possibly with pictures) after the event.

The end of Netscape

I read today on a BBC site that AOL (the current owner) is removing support for Netscape Navigator.  The other browsers built on the technology are Firefox (gottit!) and Flock (what??  Nevereardofit!)

So, I decided to make an excursion into this new "social web browser" (I think I have got that right) and have loaded it.  Having found that I can set up my blog so that I don't actually log into the blog page, but simply get a little window up that allows me to type my next set of diatribe, I thought I would give it a go.  And, if this works, you will be able to read this!

Blogged with Flock

Now I see clearly

Well, it has happened at last. No, nothing dreadful. Just the inevitable effect of a design flaw. This design flaw means that something that should be able to flex has now not got as much flex in it. It goes one way, but not the other. And what does this mean? It means that no matter how hard my eye muscles pull, the lenses in my eyes just cannot focus on close objects any more. And it is a design flaw, as the lenses just will not carry on for ever doing what they did when they were younger. And so neither can I. Therefore on January 31st I was not a spectacle wearer, but on February 1st I was. Just like that. But I'm not bitter - after all now I can see clearly all those small print things that I had to hold at arms length to focus on, but which then became too small to read. Yes - the health information on most packaging was beyond my eyesight. And now I can read it, will I follow it? I don't think I'm going to change that much!