APOLOGIES

I must apologise for leaving it so long.
It's been almost two months since the last post. That's pathetic...
And also somewhat worrying if you don't like to read a lot, because so much has happened in the last two months, I don't know where to start let alone when to stop.... ---gotcha.

Nothing much has happened actually. OK, the mac was down till yesterday. Finally I brought it back to the computer company that handles Apple warranty claims, and they changed the hard drive quickly and courteously. I had tried--dreaming against the odds, maybe bargaining while being in denial; oh classical grieving stages--I had tried to get my data off. And a friend had fanned my hopes into tender flames. I left the drive with him, and called him later to find out if he'd managed to access the data. He said, yes, he'd seen the drive and the contents on his computer screen, and as we talked he suddenly exclaimed (oh the drama), where is it gone? It's gone, I can't see the drive anylonger... tender flames, easily extenguished.

So then my friends from England (and elsewhere). I have lost ALL of my data from the last 16 months, including all the email correspondence. My address book which was full of contacts has also perished. And you thought I had forgotten you?!
Please send me a quick email. Just a brief hello, so I can add you to my new address book.

It feels like spring in more than a seasonal or climatic sense. I had to start again. Downloading programs and utilities (legally!). Wishing I was back in England for some software "sessions" (somewhat legal, sort of, in a very lose way). It's spring, a new beginning--if not yet on the calendar then at least on my laptop.

And Bermuda? Well, it's been very windy. And it's cold--not as cold as England, sure. But then in England we had central heating...
Here it's 15C outside, and 16C inside. And sometimes it's the otherway round.

The January bus pass was golden. February's is less easily defined: some kind of brownish peach, or is that orangish brown...