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![]() But, as I said, it wasn’t a long wait.Ĭarolyn, another Celt, was a very helpful adviser. Whilst waiting I had the pleasure of listening to Johnny Cash singing ‘Ring of Fire’ – by far my favourite ever bit of holding music. We got there in the end and I was at last in a very short queue to speak to a real live person. Perhaps my London speech was the problem. Yes, an American system with the diction of those living north of the English border. Maybe it was the questions delivered in a broad Scots accent. Naturally I was answered by a machine operated by my voice. Probably ad infinitum if I hadn’t decided to call a halt and ring Apple Care ![]() A box told me my Epson Perfection V750 PRO had quit unexpectedly and prompted me to try again. This involved a change of the previous galaxy photograph as wallpaper to what could loosely be described as sweeping waves. ![]() I will leave him to update friends and family with his own news. Fortunately much of this time was taken up by a welcome phone call from Sam in Perth. I was informed that the download would take 51 minutes. They must have run out of wildcats which is what all the previous systems’ names were. Being an American organisation I suspect Apple were thinking of unbranded calves rather than independent-minded persons. When I turned on my iMac a big grey box with a large X in the middle of it on the screen prompted me to download what I soon realised – or at least hoped – was a new operating system called, of all things ‘Mavericks’. Just one colour slide took approximately three hours. This was another day of steady rain, so I decided to scan some ‘posterity’ pictures. Hopefully, having read an English translation should help me with this original version. This introduction seems to be doing a good job of putting the work into historical and social context. This morning I began reading Jacques Suffel’s preface to Gustave Flaubert’s timeless novel ‘Madame Bovary’.
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