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A lovely Sunday

  Two Sundays when I am not playing. To St John Upper Norwood Jackson in G, Bainton And I saw a new heaven. Marilyn Harper played Bach Prelude and fugue in G. What a treat! At evensong we sang Noble in B minor and Te lucis Balfour Gardiner. Ian le Grice was playing. Bruce came and Dennis and co brought pizza. Strictly and Antiques roadshow. Matthew Bourne on Swan Lake. Monday chat to Ann woke late, Cancelled swim and aerobics. To Wickes Wimbledon to look at bathroom options. Chat to Claire. Copying for interfaith group. Northern dioceses envirnmental group addressed by Sister Joan. Liz to UCM so transported her there and back. Henry came for dish which I had already taken to his house so took them home. Call my bluff, Face the music, University challenge, Only connect. Tuesday Liz to Guys and it was a shorter ession. Swim. Enjoyed The Estate NT at home. To carers meeting and some new people. Back home for a bite then to Bernard Weatherill House for first Croydon climate forum wh...
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A great day

 To UNACC Triniti not there so picked up Liz and took our ladder so I could put up the 3 pictures and change the clock (after 2 weeks!) back. Nice lunch. To Dulwich gallery and saw the new entrance and kids area and building from outside. Anna Ancher: painting light excellent film and some lovely works. Shop disappointing. Why did they not use the cornfield painting? Sainsburys. To Picturehouse West Norwood.  the film “The Choral”. It’s moving and touching. I feel emotionally wrung out and Gerontius is my favourite choral work. Ranulph Fiennes excellent and the Alan Bennett script is perfect. Hamza's wildlife series so good. Saturday To Shabbat service at South London liberal synagogue and Liz was invited to read a prayer. Georgina spoke about hurricanes in the Caribbean. Did you know there are synagogues in Jamaica? Fell asleep watching the recording of the Lady Mayor's parade! Oh dear this is grumpy organist again! To Mass this evening. Good points communion under both kinds...
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Young people

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   The Christian Muslim forum celebrates 20 years. The forum were guests of the Right Revd Stephen Cottrell Archbishop of York at Lambeth Palace. The archbishop welcomed us and spoke about the challenges we face. Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra Co-chair CMF, spoke on ‘20 years of CMF: From early beginnings to national platform, interfaith dialogue in a changing landscape’. Bishop Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy spoke on ‘Diversity within and without, dialoguing with difference’ and John Woodhouse reflected on 60 years of Nostra aetate and Catholic perspectives on interfaith dialogue. Copies of the new translation of Nostra aetate by Professor Michael Barnes SJ were provided by Westminster Interfaith as an aid to study and John commended Fratelli tutti for study. Common themes were friendship as a basis for dialogue, concern over the rise of the far right and the misuse of Christian symbols by them, moving from dialogue to action for tangible collaboration and engaging the younger generation....
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National interfaith week launch

 After yesterday's triumph at Lambeth Palace it was back to art and aerobics. Jacqui asked after Liz who was at urology all afternoon. To St Martin in the Fields hall for launch of National interfaith week. The present and the past minister for faith both spoke well. Such a contrast to the last government. Sam Wells told 4 stories. Khaleel story teller excellent. Lots of networking and lovely food. Choir practice in church was enjoyable. Celebrity race around the world started. Liz watched Celebrity traitors I refused to watch! 
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Unacc

 Monday Oct 26 Liz early to station fasting blood test and she saw haemotologist. Chat to Ann and finished jigsaw 3 of Royal collection Street party. 60 Union flags! To Croydon town hall and took my paintings to promote Unacc. Some useful contacts. Delivered old blue badge to Bernard Weatherill house. SM. Let all the world sing.   To Jamyang Buddhist centre for dialogue about universal responsibility which lead to discussion about compassion. Rabbi Nathan, the bishop of Kingston and Geshe Tenzin Namdak Faiths together in Lambeth. I asked a question about educating children to show compassion by example. Nathan mentioned that we are visiting the synagogue. Only connect. Tuesday Imran was supposed to bring new hubcaps but when I rang up it was his day off. I did not go swimming and gave the porch a thorough clean. Started the 4th Royal jigsaw. Call my bluff, Face the music with Ben Luxon, University challenge. To quiet time and a good turnout.  To Farm Street church Ma...
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Bruce

 Thursday Oct 23 woke at 6 and then 9.30. When   I came down the stairs and saw a man in a coat carrying Ocado bags into the kitchen so I said “Ive got 8 empty Ocado bags for you” and got them out of the cupboard. He said “Oh no I’m not from Ocado I’ve come to put in a stair rail!” “Oh good” said I “hello I’m John” and shook his hand. And it’s a great improvement especially for me. To art and still copying outlines. Hstoric service in the Sistine chapel .  BBC news people would not shut up during the historic Sistine chapel service and kept on getting things wrong! Oh for Richard Dimbleby! Watch the video on Vatican media live. Great singing! BBC commentary from the Sistine chapel service “that was a reading from the Epistle to the Romans by the foreign secretary”. Some missive! Another classic 20 minutes on You tube of the cars and the outside of St Paul's and no King and Queen! I found a video from the Royal channel of part of the service from St Paul's outside the...
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Busy day

 Thursday Oct 16  Art, aerobics (I can’t stand Morgana replacing Barbara) dentist. Westminster Abbey joint evensong Part, fabulous Bruckner, nice to see all the clergy and Peter played Mendelssohn 2. Then to the Globe. No wonder I’m tired! We enjoyed parts of Troilus and Cressida at the Globe. It’s a wierd play. Access host took us in the lift and the captions were great. Hot chocolate at interval as it got cold. Walked to London Bridge and home by 11.45. Oct 18 Saturday. School of synodality zoom very inspiring. Gandhi association AGM less so. At Mass Fr Joseph launched into "What a friend we have in Jesus" then drank from the chalice and sang the last line. Nobody sang. I pointed out to him that RCs do not know this hymn at all. He said "some hymns are not in the book". Also we got old versions of the Mass book so I said they should be removed. Why did they publish this with the same colour cover? Black History Momth event at SJ was not as good as last year. Piani...
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