I got logged out of WhatsApp

And then all my media disappeared. As if I had just joined.

But also weirdly I got lots of messages saying I had been added to groups – groups I joined more than ten years ago.

So that was strange.

Also rather sad because it looks as if I have lost some treasured messages and photos.

For example from my friend C., who died a few weeks ago.

C. as a student (standing on the right), and more recently in a hat

I don’t very clearly remember what the photos looked like.

Maybe it can be restored somehow, from the ‘cloud’, aka a server in some vast server farm.