Another dull day, brightened by a pancake breakfast followed by a lie-in. Then a trip to Canton Cobblers to collect my repaired shoes and sandals. The shoes were finished, but my sandals had been in a queue of other sandal repairs, and hadn't been done, so I'll have to wait until next week.
Clare received an email with an unreadable zip file attachment on it from the music transcription service of the Royal National Institute for the Blind. They have a specialist volunteer team helping those losing their sight to continue normal activity by making large print copies of music whose notes or text layout is too cramped or too small for easy reading. It's not as straightforward as enlargement, as the layout of text in relation to music contributes to legibility issues, a digital re-write is needed using a special app called MuseScore. Clare's file attachment was not only zipped but in a special .mscz MuseScore file format.
Clare's laptop runs under Linux Mint, and initially the .mscz file was unreadable. I emailed it to myself and tried without success to read it on my Chromebook, so tried again on my Windows workstation. This told me to look in the Windows App store, where I found and downloaded MuseScore3 for free. This was able to display and print the file as intended. Then Google told me there's a Linux version, so I installed it on Clare's laptop for future use. It's a nice piece of work. You can create your own music files using it as well as files others have created.
Clare cooked a delicious salmon soup for lunch. Afterwards, I finished and printed tomorrow's sermon. Then we drove to Porthkerry Country park for a walk tea and cake. The sky remained overcast threatening rain but it didn't arrive. For supper I cooked myself a pasta sauce with red pepper and tomato - things Clare's diet forbids. Then I recorded next Thursday's Morning Prayer and Reflection.
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