It was overcast and raining when I woke up. Although the rain turned into a persistent drizzle for the rest of the day, that gusty wind which has been around for the past week blew intermittently - really miserable. Clare's study group members turned up at ten. When Fran arrived she told us that the icon of the Trinity is not finished. The image is going to appear on the front cover of an Anthroposophical magazine, due out soon, but there's been a problem for the printer producing a suitable colour faithful digital image. It's a tricky business, given the minor variations in the way digital camera sensors record colour and respond to lighting conditions - well beyond my technical competence.
I spent the morning in the front room recording and editing next Wednesday's Morning Prayer and Reflection, and then cooked mackerel for lunch. The drizzle just about stopped, though not the wind so I ventured out quite late for my afternoon walk. I went to the shops to buy a Welsh greeting card for Veronica's birthday then to the Post Office to sign and send it. Then I transferred all the birdsong recordings I've made using the Merlin app from my phone to my Windows laptop, to examine them in detail, amplifying and cleaning up the WAV file, removing the sections with irrelevant sounds, traffic, conversation, wind noise. Well, I made a start on it, and will need to go through the good extracts to identify which birds are which, as the app time and place data isn't attached to the audio.
Clare had supper early, ready to go to her meditation group. I went out again and walked for an hour, at an unusually fast pace for me. I don't why this should be. Normally after a sedentary morning, it's a struggle to regain the spring in my step. I got back in time for the Archers and was about to go out again to complete my daily distance when Clare returned and asked me to go to the Co-op to buy veggie sausages for her lunch tomorrow, which I did. Then I watched more of the weird Finnish murder mystery 'Evilside', until bed time.
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