After yesterday's summery interlude overcast again with light rain for much of the day. Getting to bed by half past ten was beneficial, even if I was awake for an extra hour at first light. I don't understand why my sleep pattern is so variable. It's the same for Clare too, due to joint pain, which I don't suffer from. It's neck stiffness I suffer from, no matter what combination of pillows I try out.
I read an interesting piece on a tech' news site about the state of Denmark's intention to replace Microsoft Office, Cloud services and operating systems with Libre Office, Linux and other open source software, not reliant on Trump's policy whims.
A new phrase has been coined in reaction to his America First policy: digital sovereignty. There's an increased risk that strategic decisions about tariffs and sanctions taken in the USA could deny non-American users access to communications networks and their own data. This would be of particular significance for Greenland, historically a Danish colony, in the light of Trump's ambition to annex the territory for its own security purposes. Equally important is the escalating cost of Microsoft products. The idea of developing an independent European set of Cloud services becomes attractive. Both Russia and China have their own independent Cloud services, so why not the EU?
I spent the morning after breakfast making a backup of the weekly biblical reflections I've published on WhatsApp so far this year, a painstaking and fiddly job. I also sent the rite for blessing a new icon which I've devised to Fr Rhys, ready for Sunday Mass at St Luke's, where my birthday present icon will be hallowed duringthe liturgy. Then I started preparing veg for lunch. Clare went into town to buy a batch of fish for freezing, and brought back a couple of herring fillets to eat fresh. Such a gentle delicious flavour.
I walked after lunch down to the bottom of Sophia Gardens and back. A fun fair is being set up there on the site often occupied by itinerant circuses or open air theatre productions, right next to the coach station.
In the evening I watched an Australian drama set in the outback of Victoria state. Beautiful scenery and a tragic story about the dark side or life in a neglected poor rural community.
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