A fresh start

I have had to make a fresh start with a new platform for my Blog.

Earlier on today, as a follow up from my post on Saturday, I wrote what I hoped and believed was a good post analysing the current situation in the Church, especially regarding the future of Summorum Pontificum.

After what seemed like an eternity I was happy with what I had written and I pressed the button to post it.

And it vanished. Disappeared. Gone. Up in an invisible puff of smoke!

In that moment the blood drained from my face and for about 3 seconds I think I felt my soul leave my body, so deep was the shock and horror.

No matter what I did, it was gone.

I called a friend who runs a Computer repair company. If anyone can retrieve something lost on a computer it is him.

After trying repeatedly to resolve the issue, he told me the bad news. The article was irredeemably lost.

He and I looked through the platform I was using and it turns out that it does not have the option of saving what you write as a draft copy. So if or, in this case, when anything goes wrong, bye bye article!

We investigated this platform and all indications are that this is a much safer option.

Indeed, every now and then I can see that it is saving what I write, as I write.

So here's to a fresh start. One, I hope, that will save me from startling near death experiences!

God bless,

Michael