A curiosity

I woke this morning at around 05:45, apparently having slept well and with no dreams to report on waking.

However, a few minutes later, I remembered about a chap who had given a series of art song concerts in and around Ryde one lunchtime. Repeating the same concert at seven locations over the one stretched lunchtime; from Quarr to Puckpool. Perhaps on a Monday or Tuesday, perhaps on our first week on the island.

I also remember being worried that it would all fall flat, that the performances would be a rather embarrassing flop. Maybe with the wrong sort of audience, or maybe with hardly any audience at all. In the event, there were delays because of the windy weather, but we did get to two or three of them and they were fine.

For a little while, I thought that this was for real. To the extent of checking the record, where there was nothing, although I did learn how to use the search feature provided with Samsung Notes.

So the whole thing was just a few bits and bobs left over from what may well have been a substantial dream. But rather troubling that it took me so long - maybe as long as ten minutes - to sort out the absence of fact from fiction.

PS 1: Google does not seem to get the idea at all. Nothing which ties in with the dream, or which prompts more of it to come back. That said, the outfit at reference 1 does strike me as a perfectly reasonable response to the query 'art song garden'. Far left, middle row in the snap above. A rather elaborate operation which appears to want to teach young children on television without bothering about teachers. An operation involving money and protection against freeloaders, this last in the form of trickery with the workings of 'copy link'. I shall make some enquiries.

PS 2: after which I took a quick peek at today's Financial Times, to be entertained by a story about Deutsche Bank's long running project to absorb the IT systems of its one-time rival Postbank. For which see reference 4. From where I associate to the arranged marriage (shotgun marriage?) between UBS and Credit Suisse. Perhaps their IT guys are in for a rocky few years too!

References

Reference 1: https://scratchgarden.com/.

Reference 2: https://wayokids.com/scratchgarden.

Reference 3: https://youtu.be/fph81KVY6f8.

Reference 4: How Deutsche Bank’s 13-year attempt to kill off an IT system finally worked: A frantic weekend in early July was the culmination of German lender’s fraught efforts to integrate rival Postbank - Olaf Storbeck, Financial Times - 2023.