Cold and sunny again today. After breakfast, a heavy load of shopping for rye loaves and bread flour to fetch from Beanfreaks. Sausages for lunch, then a walk in the park. Audio recording and editing while the house was quiet with Clare out for her post siesta walk.
After supper I continued scanning photo negatives from 1986, and adding them to the same Google Photos account so I could sort the jumble of images into what would have been their original rolls of film. Over the years the thirty odd strips of surviving negatives have been shuffled and scratched. Fortunately the Windows 11 photo editor contains a cloud app facility for repairing a digital image which was useful for restoration. Curiously it's no quicker that the equivalent facility in Google Picasa was fifteen years ago, though it is more accurate. So, there were photos of a visit to Aberaeron, of domestic pets, the school run and visitors in Chepstow, and of our family holiday in Cork.
There were three group photos of our family with another family. It took me twenty four hours of puzzling to recall who they were, as I mistook the setting in which they were taken. These two were taken in Cork, in the Rectory garden of Canon Michael Mayes USPG's Church of Ireland representative, an ex missionary in Japan. He later went on to be elected a Church of Ireland Bishop. I was replacing him while he took his annual summer holiday. I found no photos of Cork city. I remember it rained constantly for the best part of two weeks, and stopped only for a hike in Lee Valley nature reserve and Blarney Castle. Or is there another set of negatives lurking somewhere in the box? Most delightful, several photos I took of Owain (8) having a lesson with Jane Francis, a Suzuki violin teacher. Rewarding piecing together a visual jigsaw of family life 38 years ago.
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