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Thursday, 16 April 2020

Thursday, April 16/2020

Cyprus coal tits in full acrobatic display this morning. About a dozen of the swirling and swooping daringly above the lane, over the roofs and then back down in the narrow area between the houses. Pretty skilful performance. Would have thought it too late for mating exhibition. Just freewheeling entertainment? And when I take the rubbish over to the bin after dinner a couple of them are still at it, swooping in the early dusk.

Procrastination has some merits. Had not yet drawn the impossibility of the connections of the flight back to Air Canada’s attention, given the unsatisfactory nature of the links provided when they changed the departure time from London. No problem with that (minor) change, but doesn’t solve the difficulty of having to leave Toronto before we arrive there. There used to be a complaints link where you could write in words - as opposed to ticking boxes - what you wished to explain. Once used it for what I told them was not a complaint but an attempt to draw their attention to an oversight. Very happily resolved by a human that one was. However, the complaints section seems to have been replaced, rather optimistically, by a compliments section. So, needs must. Explain the difficulty and press submit. Email of acknowledgment points out that they are very busy and may take four weeks to respond. No doubt. It’s not that they have a surplus of alternative flights. The only real solution probably is to move the flight to the following day. Let’s call the whole thing off?