7.45 am: A communion. Then it came to mind:

9.00 am: On with the composition descriptors for The Biblical Record CD. ‘This is taking an age, John!’ I know. The website must be completed before the album can be released and I can move on to the next project (which has already begun in my head). I’m trying to box clever: informing the listener regarding the content, intent, concept, and method governing each composition, but without interpreting such. (That’s for others to do, in my opinion.)

11.00 am: The Friday Marmitisation time:

A momentum was building. Having written the first few descriptors, a template began to emerge that provided a structure and scope for those that were to come. 12.45 pm: The Open Reach engineer arrived to investigate our domestic internet drop-out problem. ‘It’s not your fault’, he said. The fault was at the green junction box down the road: bent copper wire syndrome. So others in the neighbourhood must’ve been experiencing the same frustration. Me … I opened a small tin of Heinz Macaroni Cheese. It tastes nothing like the real thing, but I love it:

13.50 pm: Internet restored (still faultily until repaired), I pressed on with the morning’s task. (In the background, Neil Young’s Harvest played. A Man Needs a Maid floors me every time.) I felt winter approach. It was in the cruel rain, the receding sun, and the lowering sky. 5.15 pm: Work had gone well, today. Now, I know what needs to be done (I think). Dinner preparations followed.

7.30 pm: I changed gear, and turned to examine a perceived problem with the mix of one of my already released compositions. On closer examination, it wasn’t problematic. Possibly, I’d listened to it once at too low volume. The relative audibility of contributing parts doesn’t necessarily remain constant below the optimum threshold.

For something that never happened: